Mount Simplon (from Hosack Album), (painting).

Mount Simplon (from Hosack Album), (painting).

D., L., painter.

D., I., painter.

Mount Simplon (from Hosack Album), (painting).

Watercolor on off-white wove paper.

6 15/16 x 4 15/16 in. (17.6 x 12.5 cm).

(Lower right:) L. (or I.) D. signed

View looking across a steep mountain gorge flanked on the left by a stone wall supporting a serpentine road that runs along the mountainside. Several groups of figures climb toward the top of the road.

Landscape -- Switzerland -- Simplon

Landscape -- Road -- Simplon Pass

Landscape -- Mountain -- Alps

Landscape -- Canyon

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 1994.187.4

The artist's initials are either L.D. or I.D. Mount Simplon is written on the bottom center of the album page, below the mounted image.

Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 357.

Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 357.

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