landscape drawings

William Berryman - [Landscape with gray sky]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Belvidere Bridge over Jones's Falls, Baltimore, Aug. 1828

(DLC/PP-1995:140.427) Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 427. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

[Canoe on mountain lake] - Public domain scenic drawing

Landscape drawings shows a canoe on a lake under the peak of a tall mountain, perhaps in the Adirondacks, American west or the European Alps. Gift; John Herbert Corning Estate; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:0064).

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Falls of Niagara. View of the great pitch taken from below, see Forest...

Drawing shows great volumes of water cascading over a cliff as seen from below at Niagara Falls. See: "The Foresters : A poem descriptive of a pedestrian journey to the falls of Niagara, in the Autumn of 1804"... More

William Berryman - From Brandon Hill, rain [in] distance

On verso: ink drawing of tree with notation, "Near the junction of Ballard River with Minho." Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Guann's near Fort - Swift, Brooklyn / J.R. Smith, fecit., 1817.

Drawing shows the landscape of a rural area in Brooklyn with cattle grazing on a dirt road. Ships travel through what may be Gowanus Canal in the distance. (DLC/PP-1995:140.268) Philadelphia Print Shop Invento... More

[Landscape] - Public domain city architecture drawing

Drawings shows landscape with trees and, perhaps, figures in the foreground. Exchange; Kennedy Galleries; 1962.

Jean François Millet - [Roadway with trees] / J.F.M.

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Title from P&P Bradley Collection inventory card. Bradley Collection, no. LC B 1505. Bequest; George Lothrop Bradley; 1919.

[Five sketches: one portrait, two marine views, exterior of a house, a...

Signed on lower left of mount: T. Birch. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress. Unprocessed in D 024

Wooden bridge on the Mohawk River, Schenectady U.S. July 20th 1846

Drawing shows a wooden covered bridge spanning the Hudson River at Schenectady, New York. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Niagara River leaving Lewiston, U.S. July 22nd 1846

Drawing shows a lighthouse on a bluff above a narrow opening on the Niagara River near Lewiston, New York. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Scene on the Oahe - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows a rowboat by a stream. The Oahe is in South Dakota. Formerly DRWG/US - Gedney - 104. Gift, Ralph Gedney 1926 (DLC/PP-1926:R47019).

[Valley with river in the foreground]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Two people in landscape ; woman reading outdoors]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpieces in: Louisa Alcott's People. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 19... More

Looking up the North Mill Pond, Portsmouth, N.H.

Drawing shows the North Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There is a fort on the far shore. Exchange; OPS; 1961.

Clifton House & Niagara, Monday, July 22d, 1846, from above the Stair ...

Drawing shows view of the Clifton House on the left and the American Falls on the right at Niagara Falls. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Alternate title from accompanying caption. Ex... More

Passage in the Driv. Norway - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a man leaning over the edge of a river's bank in the Drivsdalen, Norway, looking at the rushing water below. There is no bridge to the opposite side. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after t... More

C&O Canal, Georgetown DC - Public domain scenic drawing

Landscape drawing shows buildings by the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal in Georgetown, Washington, DC.

William Berryman - Israel's Orange River

Drawing shows a log structure and buildings beside a river with mountains in the background. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

[Landscape with 17th century soldiers(?) on horseback and on foot] / C...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Théodore Rousseau - [Landscape with rocks]

Inscriptions: Lower right estate stamp: TH.R (Lugt 2436); Verso: "Th.R (6) in graphite; LC stamp and "8.86.848.60" Bradley Collection, no. LC B 1509. Title, attribution, date, subject, and physical description... More

Round Hill Water Cure Northampton M / Drawn by E.W. Farmer Jan: 17th 1...

Landscape drawing shows the building and grounds which housed the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Massachusetts, a medical institution based on hydropathic principles, opened by Dr. E. E. Denniston in 184... More

[Five sketches: one portrait, two marine views, exterior of a house, a...

Signed on lower left of mount: T. Birch. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress. Unprocessed in D 024

William Berryman - [View from hill]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

William Berryman - [Landscape with storm, Jamaica]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Descriptive details on bottom of drawing.

William Berryman - Oven mango at 4 Paths looking S.E. by E.

Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Théodore Rousseau - [River landscape, the Seine at Chateau-Gaillard] /...

Title, attribution, date, subject, and physical description by Diane de Grazia, 2014. Inscriptions: Lower right in graphite: "T.H.R." Verso: all in graphite: "Rousseau. River Landscape/ 33-4/ Th.R (4)"; LC B st... More

Chester Wharf 20 miles below Philadelphia on the Delaware, July 27, 18...

Drawing showing sailboats and rowboat on river. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Alternate title from accompanying caption. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Maxime Lalanne - [Landscape with house] / Lalanne.

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Stamp on back: ERP. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Bequest; Pennell Estate; 1926; (DLC/PP-1926:R01) Conserved, 8.86.848.58.

[Valley with meandering stream]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

F. Walter Taylor - [Logan Rock]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0096). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "At the Land's End" by Arthur Symons, Harper's magazine, 118:222 (Jan. 1909).

William Berryman - Maverly works and part of Liguanea Mountains

Drawing shows women on a road carrying bundles (of sugar cane?) on their heads with town and mountains in background. Notations on recto: young canes, banks bare of grass, old leaves and cane junks above. Unpu... More

[A small house or teahouse in a grove of trees and near a small bridge...

Chinese script and two chops in upper right corner. Public domain photograph of 18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Landscape with clouds] - Public domain scenic drawing

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William Berryman - [Croptime - cutting pieces of cane - cattle feeding...

Title transcribed from finding aid.

William Berryman - [Landscape] - Public domain scenic drawing

Title from finding aid. Illegible writing in lower right-hand corner, possibly St. Margaret's. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Coast of Norway - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a small log house tucked onto a rocky island along the Norwegian coast. A sailboat and three rowboats are in the water. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. In... More

Old Georgetown DC - Public domain historic place drawing

Landscape drawing shows two men standing on a street corner in Georgetown, Washington, DC before a building occupied by a packing company. A delivery truck is parked at the corner.

View of the Hudson near West Point

Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Norwegian landscape] - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a landscape, most likely in Norway. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Gift; Charles F. Heartman; 1922; (DLC/PP-46411a).

[A residential compound with fence and outbuildings near grove of tree...

Chinese script and two chops in upper left corner.

William Berryman - At Oliphant's, Vere, Jamaica, Carpenter Mountains i...

Drawing shows a bridge leading to a village. Notation on recto: "Look at the back of this." Light pencil sketching on verso. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Pr... More

William Berryman - [View of house or store, Jamaica]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Descriptive details in lower left corner.

About 2 miles W. of S[panish] T[own], Jam[ai]ca, Blue and Liguanea M[o...

Drawing shows a person riding a horse along a road with mountains in the distance. verso and finding aid. Notation on recto: Road light, sky grey, the mo[untai]ns darker. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of J... More

Stony Point, near Gibraltar, on the Hudson River, U.S. July 24th 1846

Drawing shows a steamship on the Hudson River, with a view of the lighthouse at Stony Point, New York. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

The Highlands from Newburgh and Butter Hill, Hudson River

Drawing shows a view of the Hudson River, looking toward the Hudson Highlands and Butter Hill. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). No. "4". Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Molde, Norway - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows, in the distance, Molde, a Norwegian village on the Moldefjorden, an arm of the Romsdalfjorden. Most of the houses, churches and buildings hug the shoreline. Sailboats dot the water. Taylor visite... More

Natural bridge coast of Iceland near Portland Point

Drawing shows fishermen rowing in the choppy sea toward a natural bridge in the coastal rock near Portland Point in Iceland. There is no other sign of habitation. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perhaps en rout... More

William Berryman - Maverly works and part of Liguanea Mountains

Drawing shows women on a road carrying bundles (of sugar cane?) on their heads with town and mountains in background. Notations on recto: young canes, banks bare of grass, old leaves and cane junks above. Unpu... More

[Norwegian landscape] - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a landscape, most likely in Norway. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Gift; Charles F. Heartman; 1922; (DLC/PP-46411a).

William Berryman - From Br[a]n[do]n Hill

Drawing shows a mountainous landscape. Notations pertaining to colors on recto. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

William Berryman - [Landscape with storm in distance]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

William Berryman - Four paths, works and great-house, Clarendon Mounta...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William Berryman - From Brandon Hill

Drawing shows a mountainous landscape. Notations pertaining to colors on recto. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Richmond & Reading R.R., Philadelphia - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a rural setting with railroad tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company that may lead to the Port Richmond terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inscribed in ink on lower left and ... More

[African American sitting in the doorway of a frame house in Washingto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Diagram: Relation of enframement and vista point / H. V. Hubbard.

(list of illustrations). Illus. in: An introduction to the study of landscape design / Henry Vincent Hubbard ; Theodora Kimball. New York: Macmillan, 1917. Drawing 16, p. 126. Published in: Gardens for a Beaut... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Queenstown [i.e. Queenston], Upper Canada on the Niagara

Drawing shows the village of Queenston in the Canadian province of Ontario, known as "Upper Canada" prior to 1841. Travelers on horseback, cart and foot traverse the wide dirt road, while houses are near the sh... More

Queenstown [i.e. Queenston], Upper Canada on the Niagara

Drawing shows the village of Queenston in the Canadian province of Ontario, known as "Upper Canada" prior to 1841. Travelers on horseback, cart and foot traverse the wide dirt road, while houses are near the sh... More

Looking up the North Mill Pond, Portsmouth, N.H.

Drawing shows the North Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There is a fort on the far shore. Exchange; OPS; 1961.

William Berryman - [View of river with bridge]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Berryman - At Lindos gate, looking to Kingston

Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Paper mill at Hodgskintown near New Haven

Landscape drawing showing small paper mill beside stream with cliffs in the background, near New Haven, Connecticut. Title inscribed from item. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 89. (DLC/PP-1995:140.89) Fo... More

[View of Hozu River and Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan]

Ukiyo-e drawing illustration showing a boatman poling his raft past blooming cherry trees as people walk across the Togetsu Bridge. Illus. in: Hiroshige gajō, early 1840s. Published in: The floating world of U... More

Curious lava formations - Public domain scan / drawing

Illustration shows seven land formations, many of which resemble coral and sea shells. Inscribed in red ink left margin: draw only this across page AHG. Inscribed in red ink next to most images: omit. Gift; Cha... More

Grand Falls at Niagara from near the Table Rock, Canada side, July 22,...

Drawing shows a view from Canadian side of Grand Falls at Niagara with clouds of spray coming up from the majestic falls while four people observe from Table Rock, at right. Purchase; William Reese Company; 200... More

Repose - Drawing. Public domain image., engraving, Library of Congress

Study for design commissioned by Prince Napoleon in 1861. (DLC/PP-1933:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

A forest glen with stream and two cows F.D. Briscoe

Signed in ink on lower right corner. (DLC/PP-2000:095) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).

View of the Hudson near West Point

Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William Berryman - Rain, Naim(?) or Naira(?) Castle

Cloud in foreground and mountains in background. Title transcribed from finding aid.

William Berryman - Part of Kellits

Drawing shows a horse being led down a mountain path with a mountainous landscape in the background. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Road through the Drivsdalen - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a man driving a cart along a road that runs through a Norwegian valley past a log cabin and a small waterfall. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed a... More

William Berryman - Sugar estate - Negros cutting cane

Drawing shows a sugar plantation with palm tree in foreground, Jamaica. Title transcribed from finding aid. Jamaica scenery no. 20. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in... More

The garden of Sambo-In - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0209). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Famous Gardens of Kioto" by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Century magazine, 83:810 (April 1912... More

William Berryman - Alexr. McRaes from 4 P[aths]

and finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

William Berryman - At Mullet Hall, Clarendon

Drawing shows a man wading in a river (?) surrounded by tall cliffs. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Approaching West Point, going down the Hudson, July 24, 1846

Drawing showing a boat traveling on the Hudson River and a view of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the distance. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). No. "5". Exhibited... More

Leaving French Town, head of Chesapeak Bay, route to Baltimore, July 2...

Drawing shows view of the Elk River; in the distance, a sailboat. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Alternate title from accompanying caption. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2000:086

Islands - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows small log houses tucked along the shores of rocky islands of the Norwegian coast. Sailboats are in the water. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed ab... More

Valley of the Little Big Horn - Public domain scenic drawing

Landscape drawing shows the valley of the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Gedney participated in the Montana Boundary Survey. Formerly DRWG/US - Gedney - 105. Gift, Ralph Gedney 1926 (DLC/PP-1926:R47019).

[Landscape with housetops in the background; gate in left foreground]

Jacob Cats - [Landscape with harvesting scene]

Drawing shows landscape and village at harvest time with a church in the distance. Several drawings of landscapes by Jacob Cats that relate to this sheet reproduce the same church tower. One, in the British Mu... More

[Landscape; man in lower left sowing]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The capture of Fort Oswego, on Lake Ontario. North America by Genl. Dr...

Landscape drawing shows British soldiers carrying the injured to a rowboat on the shore of Lake Ontario in the foreground, while on a hill in the background British troops overwhelm the American Fort Oswego dur... More

Scene on the lake - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a landscape with hills, trees, and a lake. Gift, Ralph Gedney 1926 (DLC/PP-1926:R47019). , inscribed on verso. "LC47019" inscribed on verso.

Stopping place below Hudson - first view of the Catskill Mountains fro...

Drawing showing a sailboat docked at a pier on the Hudson River with view of the Catskill Mountains in the background. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Forms part of: Documentary drawi... More

William Berryman - Maverly works and part of Liguanea Mountains

Drawing shows women on a road carrying bundles (of sugar cane?) on their heads with town and mountains in background. Notations on recto: young canes, banks bare of grass, old leaves and cane junks above. Unpu... More

Saratoga, Monday, July 20th, 1846 - Congress Hall Hotel

Drawing shows a view across an expanse of lawn, with trees in the foreground, of a pavilion, the original Congress Hall Hotel, and other buildings. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Alt... More

[Landscape with a castle on a hill and three figures and horse]

It is tempting to suggest that the subject is the Flight into Egypt. The figure to the left of the donkey appears to have wings. Perhaps Mary is standing with the child, and Joseph, on the donkey, is pointing ... More

The Hudson River at Albany, U.S. Saturday July 18th 1846

Drawing shows several ships at dock on the waterfront of the Hudson River, and a view of the landscape across the river of buildings in Hudson, New York. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086)... More

A view of the Cohoes or Great Fall of the Mohawk River taken from abov...

Drawing shows a waterfall on the Mohawk River at Cohoes in New York state. Transfer; Map Division.

William Berryman - [Landscape with blue sky]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

The Hrafnagja (pass out of Thingvalla Iceland)

Drawing shows four men traveling on horseback crossing a thin stone bridge made in the cleft in lava in Iceland. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perhaps en route to Russia. Gift; Charles F. Heartman; 1922; (DLC... More

The capture of Fort Oswego, on Lake Ontario. North America by Genl. Dr...

Landscape drawing shows British soldiers carrying the injured to a rowboat on the shore of Lake Ontario in the foreground, while on a hill in the background British troops overwhelm the American Fort Oswego dur... More

Attack upon George & Federick's towns by a detachment of boats from Th...

Topographical drawing shows the position of Rear Admiral George Cockburn's boat, as well as boats belonging to others, and the location of Georgetown, Fredericktown and the American batteries on the Sassafras R... More

Attack upon George & Federick's towns by a detachment of boats from Th...

Topographical drawing shows the position of Rear Admiral George Cockburn's boat, as well as boats belonging to others, and the location of Georgetown, Fredericktown and the American batteries on the Sassafras R... More

William Berryman - [Landscape with storm]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Descriptive details on bottom of drawing.

Théodore Rousseau - [Mountain landscape with river and church on a hil...

Title, attribution, date, subject, and physical description by Diane de Grazia, 2014. Inscribed in ink and pencil on back of drawing: "LC B 1511." George Lothrop Bradley Collection. Michel Schulman, Theodore Ro... More