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Drawing, Rugged Tree at the Canadian Bank below Niagara Falls

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on cream-colored 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

Sheet: 29.9 x 25.5 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, at ?: Memorandum / outer edge Rainbow orange / and warm tints / reflected Rainbow reverse / Inside the bow cool / side ground color light outside darkenend / Between double bow / dark land; at lower right: Water between the branches / Dark turquoise green opaque color / Niagara Sep 1856; and beside lower part of trunk: Green water.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Rugged Tree at the Canadian Bank below Niagara Falls; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Canada; graphite on cream-colored paper; Sheet: 29.9 x 25.5 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-181

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