Clouds over Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: May 1845 and August 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch overlooking clouds that stretch across wooded terrain in or near Catskill, New York. Large, misty clouds in the foreground at left and right frame an elevated view of layers of puffy clouds in the middle distance and background. The cloud banks stack on top of each other in a somewhat unclear composition. At center, a dark patch of the landscape below is visible through the clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch showing a detailed, magnified view of a mosquito larva. Resembling a caterpillar or centipede, the larva's body is comprised of a wormlike abdomen made up of rounded sections, at rear, a large, round thorax, seemingly with hairs or small wings attached, and a rounded head that features a prominent pair of antennae that resemble pincers.
label: Description
content: Recto: Pencil sketch showing a somewhat unclear view of layered puffy and misty clouds that stretch across the landscape, seen from an elevated perspective.
label: Description
content: Verso: Pencil sketch of a mosquito larva, comprised of a wormlike abdomen of rounded sections, a large, round middle section, and a head with large antennae that resemble pincers.
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: 1917-4-999-a
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 × 19 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.)