City of Tiberias on Sea of Galilee, Mt. Hermon in Distance

Daniel Huntington's pen sketch captures a landscape study of the ancient city of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, with Mount Hermon visible in the distant horizon. The composition employs careful linear perspective to establish depth across the water and rolling terrain. Huntington, an American painter known for historical and religious subjects, uses economical line work to define architectural structures, vegetation, and topography. The sketch demonstrates the artist's method of recording geographical and compositional observations, likely in preparation for a larger historical work. Such travel studies were essential to nineteenth-century academic practice, allowing artists to document biblical and classical sites with archaeological precision.