Mount Washington, Mount Madison and Mount Adams from Bridge, North of Gorham, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington's pen and wash sketch captures the White Mountains of New Hampshire with the precise topographical detail characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century landscape drawing. The composition depicts a river crossing in the foreground, with a modest structure and vegetation framing the distant peaks. Huntington, a prominent American painter known for historical and literary subjects, here demonstrates the observational immediacy of the sketch—a working study that preserves the artist's direct engagement with the American landscape during an era when such regional documentation served both aesthetic and geographical purposes.