Steamboat on the Hudson River, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: June 1874
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 a steamboat on the Hudson River with rolling hills on the opposite bank, possibly viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. In the immediate foreground at left, the top of a tree is visible. In the middle distance at center, the rectangular form of a steamboat leaving a wake in the river as waves crash against its bow. In the background, on the opposite side of the river, rugged hills are shown mostly in outline.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing part of a panoramic view of a rolling landscape with billowing clouds, likely the Hudson River Valley looking southwest from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At center and right, loose outlines of mountains and hills expand off the page at right. Above, a dynamic mixture of loosely-rendered clouds crystallizes at upper right around a billowing cumulus formation.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1009
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.8 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)