Sketch of Billowing Clouds
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of billowing clouds in a tumultuous sky over hilly terrain. At center and right, a mass of clouds rises into multiple billowing forms and casts shadows on the clouds behind it. Multiple other long and wispy clouds are visible in the sky. The outline of a hilly landscape follows the lower margin.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1117
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.4 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)