Sandwich Mountains and Chocorua Pond

Daniel Huntington's pencil sketch captures a New Hampshire landscape with the economy of line characteristic of nineteenth-century topographical drawing. The composition balances a foreground of sparse vegetation and a grazing animal against a distant vista of mountains and water, rendered in the Hudson River School tradition. Huntington, a prominent American painter, employed such sketches as studies for larger works, documenting the natural features of the northeastern wilderness that fascinated his contemporaries.