Sketch of a Covered Canoe
date: label: Date
content: 1857–70
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small sketch of a covered canoe with at least six people. At left, two people pilot the canoe while several others sit under and in front of the awning that covers the middle of the boat. One figure appears to stand on the boat's bow.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed and largely indistinct sketches of what is possibly a water lily or a manned canoe at upper center, and a cutoff portion of a landscape view along the lower margin.
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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: 1917-4-1284
objectType: label: Type
content: transportation
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 6.3 × 12.2 cm (2 1/2 × 4 13/16 in.)