Drawing, Sunset in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York, June 30, 1866

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 30, 1866 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 11.9 x 21.7 cm (4 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: 9 9 / 8 8 8 7 / 8; in graphite, center left: cool purple; in graphite, center: 6 6 / 5 / 4 4 / 3 2 / Delicious hazy distant laky purple; in graphite, lower left: 8 warm gold purp shadows / glowing with subdued / orange lights / 9 dullish blue sky (yel) / higher clear blue; in graphite, lower center: River whitish steel luminous / 6 - Brilliant glow more diffused / than [struckout: in] 2 - but dazzling shadows / of the cloud very luminous smoky / orange / 7 - reddish lights dark purp shadows; in graphite, lower right: June 30 / 1866 / 2 - orange glow growing into lake / the cloud delicately edged with / gold in pearly dots & - / 3 - in glow / 4 - smoky warm orangey neut with / hue of green / 5 - same as 4 more luminous [spot?]; in graphite, verso upper center: 5 4; in graphite, verso center left: 4; in graphite, verso center: 2; in graphite, verso center right: 3 2 / 6; in graphite, verso lower left: This sky same as / on preceding page later / June 30 / 1866 / 6 - brilliant needle clouds in shadow and light to / correspond with the shades of [above?] / lights vermillion orange dazzling / open sky smoky brandy orange greenish in / contrast / to 6; in graphite, verso lower right: purple / 2 - Delicious soft laky glow / 3 - melting purple shadow / 4 - cooler / 5 - laky lights rich

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