Catskill Mountain House
date: label: Date
content: July 1844 and June 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of the Catskill Mountain House at the ridge of the Catskill Escarpment. The complex is shown from the north, likely from Sunset Rock. The building's immense, multi-storied, multi-layered design is clearly shown at center. In the background, the steep, wooded slope of South Mountain abruptly rises behind the house.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch of an immense, billowing cumulus cloud over Catskill, New York, that rises high into the sky has a relatively flat bottom. At upper left, a detail of a portion of this cloud is visible, showing an anthropomorphic formation resembling a person's face in profile.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1409
objectType: 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 × 18.8 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)