View on the Susquehanna near Harrisburg

Thomas Doughty taught himself to paint by copying European landscape paintings on exhibition at the Academy, attempting to emulate their romantic and picturesque traditions in his own canvasses. "View on the Susquehanna near Harrisburg" moves from a foreground group of trees and group of small figures into an expansive body of water in the middle distance and elevated hills in the background, standard elements he learned from examining eighteenth-century English works.