Figure Sketches, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: May 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketch showing a scene of three figures--likely three boys--wearing brimmed hats on the shore of a lake or river, possibly fishing. At left, one figure stands beside and leans toward another figure next to him at right. They appear to be situated on a loosely rendered beach or shoreline. At center, another figure appears to reel in a fish with an incompletely rendered fishing rod. In the distance at upper right, trees--presumably those on the opposite shoreline--are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing, at upper left, a hastily rendered view of treetops and clouds near the Catskill Mountain House; at center, a sailboat oriented to the right; and at upper center, the outline of an anthropomorphic cloud that resembles a man'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: 1917-4-1406
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.)