Bull and Landscape Sketches, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August, September, and October 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches showing views of bulls and landscape elements in and around Catskill, New York and Hartford, Connecticut. At upper left, a bull lying down and a bull's head are both shown in left profile. At upper right, a tree stump is rendered in detail. At center, a loose sketch depicts several bulls in a stream beneath a double-arched bridge. The "H" on the bridge likely indicates that this specific scene was witnessed in Hartford, while the others were viewed in Catskill. At lower left, a large boulder is shown with a crack through the middle.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches of yoked oxen in Catskill, New York, likely at Thomas Cole's property and farm, Cedar Grove. At center, a yoked ox lies down in left profile. To its right, the hind legs of the same ox are rendered in detail. At lower center, a pair of yoked oxen are viewed from behind.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: made in
content: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hartford, Connecticut, 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: 1917-4-1396
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
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: 25.7 × 38.8 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)