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Drawing, View of the Catskill Mountain House, New York, July 1844 and November 1844
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 1844 and November 1844 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on off-white 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
25.8 × 38.8 cm (10 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: July 1844; lower left: sweet fern; verso upper left: dark purple edged with gold and red at the bottom of each of the clouds / The sky a beautiful green the the lowest towards the south snuff color / 1 Thus / 2 much broken thus / 3 thus (red) / lights; upper right: The most beautiful sunset that / ever was seen Nov 1844; verso lower margin: blue / brandy color / green / yellow
Cite this object as
Drawing, View of the Catskill Mountain House, New York, July 1844 and November 1844; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite; 25.8 × 38.8 cm (10 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1385
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
