Nº 40
Reading edition
Alexander H. Wyant, N.A. AMERICAN: 1836-1892
THE MOUNTAIN ROAD
Height, 12 inches; length, 16 inches
In the left foreground a well-worn country road leads along the crest of a hill in rapidly diminishing perspective to the middle distance, where it disappears among the trees, and apparently descends into a wooded vale at the foot of the hill. Beyond the vale on the right is a broad broken hillside, with here and there trees and cultivated fields, and from the summit of one of the elevations a wreath of white smoke drifts away. The sky is covered with luminous gray clouds, the sunlight struggling to break through here and there, and a few spots of blue show half way to the zenith.
Signed at the lower left, A. H. Wyant.
Thomas B. Clarke Collection, New York, 1899.