Tuning

1867

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 9.7 x 16.2 cm (3 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
Collection no.: 1946.1711
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

William Sidney Mount. Tuning. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

About this artwork

Tuning — William Sidney Mount. 1867.

Medium: graphite. Dimensions: Sheet: 9.7 x 16.2 cm (3 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

William Sidney Mount was the first major American painter of genre, or scenes of everyday life. While not directly related, the musical subject matter of two of these drawings, Tuning and Catching a Tune, brings to mind Mount's famous painting, The Power of Music, which is on view gallery 231.

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.

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