Drive from Chocorua to Knowles Pond

Daniel Huntington's pen sketch captures a New Hampshire landscape with characteristic economy of line. Gnarled trees anchor the composition while rolling terrain recedes toward distant mountains. The artist's notation references the route itself—a working travel drawing rather than finished exhibition piece. Huntington, a leading American painter of the nineteenth century, frequently sketched from nature to study landscape effects before developing them into larger works. This informal study exemplifies how artists of the period used portable sketchbooks to document topography and atmospheric conditions, translating fieldwork into studio paintings.