Steamboat drawn from the front with billowing smoke and a figure standing on deck.

Recto

Verso

Edward Hopper

Recto:

(Study of a Steamship at Sea)

Verso:

(Study of Two Ships in Battle)

1892–1895

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions

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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 in. (20 × 12.7 cm)

Accession number
70.1563.76a-b

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/22264

Part of a series:
(102 drawings)
99 works

Loose pencil sketches of human figures in various standing and seated poses on torn paper.

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Several ink sketches of men's portraits and a small steamboat drawn on paper.

Four trees beside a river with a low stone bridge and hills in the background.

A woman in a hat sits leaning on an armrest in a rough pencil sketch.

Several ink sketches showing men in tall hats and coats from different angles.

A man wearing a hat sits alone on a park bench while faint figures and trees appear.

An elderly man in a hat smokes a pipe while facing left in a quick pencil sketch.

Two quick pencil landscape sketches showing a rounded hill topped by a small tower and trees.

Three people in a small boat, one standing and pushing with a pole near trees.