Sketch of a Bull's Head, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: November 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketch showing the partial outline of a bull's head at center, with horns included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting behind the Catskill Mountains, viewed from Catskill, New York. At center, the sun has just dipped below the horizon and sends crepuscular rays, or sun beams, radiating into the sky above. Wispy clouds hang in the sky above the mountainous horizon, which features two sharp peaks at right.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, New York, 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: 1917-4-1403
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.6 × 38.8 cm (10 1/16 × 15 1/4 in.)