Dunes
date: label: Date
content: September 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 a view of three pyramidal sand dunes. Grass and shrubs crown the leftmost dune. In the background, gently arching terrain forms the horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch of a man, viewed from behind, squatting on an outcropped rock--perhaps near the shore of a lake--as a dog stands to his right and faces the same direction. Shown obliquely from the rear, this man wears a cap, vest, shirt, pants, and shoes. Another possible rock that breaks the water's surface is visible at center left.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-1429
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.)