Smoke on the Hudson River, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1860 - 1880
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a plume of smoke on the shore of the Hudson River, looking southwest from Church's property near Hudson, New York. At center, a rising column of dark smoke is loosely rendered while, at right, two dark, overlapping silhouettes of mountain ridges are shown. The low-lying sun is visible behind these ridges, illuminating several puffy clouds that hang above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a closer, more detailed view of the fire on the Hudson River illustrated on the recto. At center, a plume of smoke billows up into the sky and is carried to the right with wind as it dissipates. A house or other structure is minimally rendered at left. In the background, the dark, rugged silhouette of the Catskill mountain range is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1103-a
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 blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.9 cm (4 3/4 × 8 5/8 in.)