Bull Sketches, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Five figure sketches of various parts of bulls, likely at Thomas Cole's farm (known as Cedar Grove) in Catskill, New York. At right, three sketches of the bull's head are shown--one in profile, one obliquely viewed, and one frontally viewed. At left, the body of a grazing cow or bull is shown without a head or hooves. At upper left, a bull is loosely rendered from behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch of a dog lying down, facing and looking at the viewer. Drawing is scratched out and struck through several times.
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: 1917-4-1426
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: 11.8 × 18.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)