Sitting by the Campfire, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1877–1878
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 one of the artist's traveling companions sitting on a log by a campfire during an excursion to the Mt. Katahdin region of Maine. Wearing a brimmed cap, boots, and a jacket, he sits exactly opposite the viewer with his legs spread and his hand held up and palm facing outward. Beside him at right, an axe is buried in the top of a tree stump, with its handle facing toward our human subject. In front of him, several criss-crossing logs are engulfed in flame, rendered in white gouache. Closer to the viewer, in the immediate foreground, a bucket with a handle is backlit by the fire and casts a shadow across the ground. In the background, the faintly-rendered trunks of other trees frame the scene at left and right.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-1275
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.4 × 44.1 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)