Art, literature & history
Trees Profiled against the Sky
c. 1865
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 25.3 × 35.6 cm (9 15/16 × 14 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.3.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Henry Hill. Trees Profiled against the Sky. John Henry Hill; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Hill,_Trees_Profiled_against_the_Sky,_c._1865,_NGA_61094.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Trees Profiled against the Sky — John Henry Hill. c. 1865.
Medium: watercolor on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 25.3 × 35.6 cm (9 15/16 × 14 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1982.3.1. Gift of Mildred Gott Bryan and American Art Curator's Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.