diff --git a/cmd/lncli/commands.go b/cmd/lncli/commands.go
index be63d4e7..47d90327 100644
--- a/cmd/lncli/commands.go
+++ b/cmd/lncli/commands.go
@@ -11,15 +11,12 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"math"
 	"os"
-	"os/exec"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 
-	"github.com/awalterschulze/gographviz"
 	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash"
-	"github.com/btcsuite/btcutil"
 	"github.com/golang/protobuf/jsonpb"
 	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
 	"github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/lnrpc"
@@ -2343,13 +2340,7 @@ var describeGraphCommand = cli.Command{
 	Category: "Peers",
 	Description: "Prints a human readable version of the known channel " +
 		"graph from the PoV of the node",
-	Usage: "Describe the network graph.",
-	Flags: []cli.Flag{
-		cli.BoolFlag{
-			Name:  "render",
-			Usage: "If set, then an image of graph will be generated and displayed. The generated image is stored within the current directory with a file name of 'graph.svg'",
-		},
-	},
+	Usage:  "Describe the network graph.",
 	Action: actionDecorator(describeGraph),
 }
 
@@ -2364,12 +2355,6 @@ func describeGraph(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// If the draw flag is on, then we'll use the 'dot' command to create a
-	// visualization of the graph itself.
-	if ctx.Bool("render") {
-		return drawChannelGraph(graph)
-	}
-
 	printRespJSON(graph)
 	return nil
 }
@@ -2405,135 +2390,6 @@ func normalizeFunc(edges []*lnrpc.ChannelEdge, scaleFactor float64) func(int64)
 	}
 }
 
-func drawChannelGraph(graph *lnrpc.ChannelGraph) error {
-	// First we'll create a temporary file that we'll write the compiled
-	// string that describes our graph in the dot format to.
-	tempDotFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer os.Remove(tempDotFile.Name())
-
-	// Next, we'll create (or re-create) the file that the final graph
-	// image will be written to.
-	imageFile, err := os.Create("graph.svg")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	// With our temporary files set up, we'll initialize the graphviz
-	// object that we'll use to draw our graph.
-	graphName := "LightningNetwork"
-	graphCanvas := gographviz.NewGraph()
-	graphCanvas.SetName(graphName)
-	graphCanvas.SetDir(false)
-
-	const numKeyChars = 10
-
-	truncateStr := func(k string, n uint) string {
-		return k[:n]
-	}
-
-	// For each node within the graph, we'll add a new vertex to the graph.
-	for _, node := range graph.Nodes {
-		// Rather than using the entire hex-encoded string, we'll only
-		// use the first 10 characters. We also add a prefix of "Z" as
-		// graphviz is unable to parse the compressed pubkey as a
-		// non-integer.
-		//
-		// TODO(roasbeef): should be able to get around this?
-		nodeID := fmt.Sprintf(`"%v"`, truncateStr(node.PubKey, numKeyChars))
-
-		attrs := gographviz.Attrs{}
-
-		if node.Color != "" {
-			attrs["color"] = fmt.Sprintf(`"%v"`, node.Color)
-		}
-
-		graphCanvas.AddNode(graphName, nodeID, attrs)
-	}
-
-	normalize := normalizeFunc(graph.Edges, 3)
-
-	// Similarly, for each edge we'll add an edge between the corresponding
-	// nodes added to the graph above.
-	for _, edge := range graph.Edges {
-		// Once again, we add a 'Z' prefix so we're compliant with the
-		// dot grammar.
-		src := fmt.Sprintf(`"%v"`, truncateStr(edge.Node1Pub, numKeyChars))
-		dest := fmt.Sprintf(`"%v"`, truncateStr(edge.Node2Pub, numKeyChars))
-
-		// The weight for our edge will be the total capacity of the
-		// channel, in BTC.
-		// TODO(roasbeef): can also factor in the edges time-lock delta
-		// and fee information
-		amt := btcutil.Amount(edge.Capacity).ToBTC()
-		edgeWeight := strconv.FormatFloat(amt, 'f', -1, 64)
-
-		// The label for each edge will simply be a truncated version
-		// of its channel ID.
-		chanIDStr := strconv.FormatUint(edge.ChannelId, 10)
-		edgeLabel := fmt.Sprintf(`"cid:%v"`, truncateStr(chanIDStr, 7))
-
-		// We'll also use a normalized version of the channels'
-		// capacity in satoshis in order to modulate the "thickness" of
-		// the line that creates the edge within the graph.
-		normalizedCapacity := normalize(edge.Capacity)
-		edgeThickness := strconv.FormatFloat(normalizedCapacity, 'f', -1, 64)
-
-		// If there's only a single channel in the graph, then we'll
-		// just set the edge thickness to 1 for everything.
-		if math.IsNaN(normalizedCapacity) {
-			edgeThickness = "1"
-		}
-
-		// TODO(roasbeef): color code based on percentile capacity
-		graphCanvas.AddEdge(src, dest, false, gographviz.Attrs{
-			"penwidth": edgeThickness,
-			"weight":   edgeWeight,
-			"label":    edgeLabel,
-		})
-	}
-
-	// With the declarative generation of the graph complete, we now write
-	// the dot-string description of the graph
-	graphDotString := graphCanvas.String()
-	if _, err := tempDotFile.WriteString(graphDotString); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if err := tempDotFile.Sync(); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	var errBuffer bytes.Buffer
-
-	// Once our dot file has been written to disk, we can use the dot
-	// command itself to generate the drawn rendering of the graph
-	// described.
-	drawCmd := exec.Command("dot", "-T"+"svg", "-o"+imageFile.Name(),
-		tempDotFile.Name())
-	drawCmd.Stderr = &errBuffer
-	if err := drawCmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		fmt.Println("error rendering graph: ", errBuffer.String())
-		fmt.Println("dot: ", graphDotString)
-
-		return err
-	}
-
-	errBuffer.Reset()
-
-	// Finally, we'll open the drawn graph to display to the user.
-	openCmd := exec.Command("open", imageFile.Name())
-	openCmd.Stderr = &errBuffer
-	if err := openCmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		fmt.Println("error opening rendered graph image: ",
-			errBuffer.String())
-		return err
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 var listPaymentsCommand = cli.Command{
 	Name:     "listpayments",
 	Category: "Payments",