Mountain View, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1877
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 rugged mountain in Maine, likely near Lake Millinocket. Trees and other vegetation are loosely rendered in the foreground at left, while the rounded, pyramidal mountain dominates the composition at center. Its peak is exposed while its lower slopes are wooded, and a ridgeline extends away from the peak in the background at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical and figure sketches showing several evergreen trees and a standing figure at Lake Millinocket in Maine. Along the upper portion, eight evergreen trees and treetops are shown with variously lush and dead canopies. In the lower portion, a standing figure wearing a hat is viewed in profile and flanked by evergreen trees at left and right.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-1160
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 tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.1 × 17 cm (4 in. × 6 11/16 in.)