Sketch of C. Waterman with a View of Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August, September, and October 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketches showing views of a child, labeled "C. Waterman," and the village of Catskill, New York. At upper left, a child with curly locks is shown in three-quarter profile. At lower right, a view of Catskill from a nearby creek (likely the Catskill or Kaaterskill) is somewhat loosely sketched. A church steeple and multiple roofs are visible beyond a wooded bank across a nearby creek with a wooden bridge at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch showing a view of two trees in Catskill, New York. At lower center, a deciduous tree, possibly an elm, is shown a lush canopy, while at center right, a similar tree is devoid of leaves, its barren branches darkly rendered.
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: 1917-4-1395
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 off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 × 38.7 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)