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Drawing, Splendid Sunset, Niagara Falls, New York
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated March 20, 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan wove paper. 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
28.5 × 38.8 cm (11 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, verso lower center, L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 5 orange and red mist; in graphite, upper center: 2 Illuminated / 6; in graphite, center left: 8 / cold [col?] mist; in graphite, center right: 7 / 5 5 / 9 / 3 / 4 / 2 / water above falls dark greenish neutral / falls deep green; in graphite, lower left: Dark brown / Tower delicately and / coldly lighted; in graphite, lower center: cold mist / 9 clouds richly illuminated / at the edge with gold and orange / splendid sunset; in graphite, lower right: 3 - silvery gold & blue / 4 - most brilliant light / 6 - Dark purple grey / 7 - Exquisite blue / 8 - same as 6 but less dark apparently / Niagara March 20 /56
Cite this object as
Drawing, Splendid Sunset, Niagara Falls, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on tan wove paper; 28.5 × 38.8 cm (11 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1163
