In Front of Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington's landscape study captures the New Hampshire wilderness through multiple compositional studies. The sheet demonstrates 19th-century artistic practice: quick topographical sketches of the mountain's geological formations occupy the upper register, while the lower section presents detailed studies of boulders and rocky outcroppings rendered with careful attention to light and shadow. This working drawing reveals the artist's process in translating natural observation into finished landscape painting—a method central to Hudson River School practice. The annotations suggest field notes documenting specific sites and conditions encountered during Huntington's travels through New England's mountainous terrain.