Art, literature & history
Specimens of Polyautography: Landscape with an Oak Tree
1803
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1940.1124
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Hearne. Specimens of Polyautography: Landscape with an Oak Tree. Thomas Hearne; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Specimens of Polyautography: Landscape with an Oak Tree — Thomas Hearne. 1803.
Medium: lithograph. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
The first portfolio of artists’ lithographs was published in 1803, just five years after Alois Senefelder invented the medium in Munich in 1798. Entitled Specimens of Polyautography, the publication included twelve lithographs by British, French, German, and Swiss artists. Figures contemplating the landscape and atmospheric tree studies were dominant subjects among these early pen lithographs.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.