Specimens of Polyautography:  Landscape with an Oak Tree

Specimens of Polyautography: Landscape with an Oak Tree

Thomas Hearne

1803

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

This painting shows a landscape with a big oak tree. The artist used simple lines to draw the tree and the ground. This was part of a project to test a new printing method, which is interesting because it was still a new technique at the time. Check out the work of artist: Thomas Hearne (British, 1744–1817) for more like this.

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