Travelers Resting by a Fallen Tree

John Linnell, 1852

The image is a landscape view with a progression of elements from left to right. The horizon is above the center, showing rolling hills meeting a cloudy sky. The painting is textured with brushstrokes, featuring… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: John Linnell ¹
Date: 1852 ¹
Medium: watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper ¹
Original: 4,938 × 3,155 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Mellon Collection

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