Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence
date: label: Date
content: July 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing the trunks of two large trees growing in front of a board fence, likely in Catskill, New York. Visible at center, one tree is situated in front of the other, as the curving trunk and broken lower bough of the other are visible behind it. Both trees' branches are not visible, as the trunks extend out of frame. Several rocks lay on the ground around the base of the foremost tree.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch of two trees in or near Catskill, New York. At right, a tall, slender tree--likely a conifer--is shown. At left and orient to the left, another tree with twisting, spindly branches is visible. Immediately beneath it, a detail of one of its leaves is included.
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: 1917-4-995-c
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
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: 19.7 × 11.9 cm (7 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.)