Cloud Sketch
date: label: Date
content: 1844–1850
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing layers of diverse clouds hanging over a valley--likely the Hudson River Valley--that stretches horizontally across the composition. Rolling mountains are shown in the foreground at left and across the horizon in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch overlooking a dark landscape in a river valley over which layers of clouds hang. Likely showing the Hudson River Valley viewed from the Catskill Mountain House, this perspective includes treetops stretching across the foreground. Dark, indefinite terrain is shown in the valley at center, while fog likely hangs over the Hudson River in the middle distance. Layers of puffy and hazy clouds hang above.
place: label: made in
content: Palenville, 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: 1917-4-1412
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)