The Oxbow

After the painting: Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm — The Oxbow, 1836

A passing storm over a valley: wild forest on the left, a river looping through fields on the right. A large landscape 210 stitches across.

Size: 210 × 142 stitches; on 14-count: 38.1 × 25.8 cm, on 18-count: 29.6 × 20.0 cm
Threads: 22 DMC colours, full crosses only
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10497 — the work on the museum site
Licence: Chart — © 2026 Crossette, CC BY 4.0: free to stitch, print and share with a link to crossette.org. The original is in the public domain (CC0); the museum image comes from its open collection.

PDF to print · 531 KB OXS for software · 1.2 MB

OXS is an open chart format that many cross stitch programs open. The Crossette app opens it too — it’s in development; the beta comes after Apple’s review. Colours on screen and in print are approximate; go by the thread codes.