Landscape with Stream and Mountains
1833
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Accession Number
1976.54
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About this artwork
Thomas Doughty's landscape is a fantasy of the American frontier that echoes Thomas Jefferson's hopes for the nation. Lush vegetation, towering mountains, and crystal waters surround the fishermen, who harvest the riches of land and water without disturbing paradise. When Doughty created this painting, expansion was in full swing, and Jefferson's idea of a new republic strongly rooted in the land remained a powerful image for European settlers who pushed the nation's frontiers westward to the Mi...
About the Artist
Thomas Doughty
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