Clouds above Hills
date: label: Date
content: 1865–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of billowing clouds over a range of hills. In the middle distance, a hill with a long flat top and seemingly covered in evergreen trees is visible at right and extends towards other mountains in the background at left. Above it, along bank of billowing and partially shaded clouds extends across the sky while another long cloud is shown above it.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a small portion of a rainbow at center, and loosely rendered parts of clouds along the right margin.
place: label: probably made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: Hudson, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-1176
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 gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.6 × 19.4 cm (4 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.)