View of Groton Heights from New London

Daniel Huntington's pencil sketch captures a Connecticut landscape with two distinct views. The upper drawing presents Groton Heights as seen from New London, a panoramic vista of the settlement nestled in rolling terrain, with church steeples and scattered buildings defining the town's profile. Below, a separate study renders a residential structure in greater detail. The notation "Old House at New London" identifies the building's significance. Huntington's loose, economical line work emphasizes topography and spatial relationships, characteristic of nineteenth-century American landscape study. These sketches likely served as preparatory studies for a larger composition, documenting the region's architectural and natural features.