Canoeing, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1876–1881
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Field sketches showing multiple views of canoes piloted on a river or lake in Maine and their riders. In the upper row, a canoe is shown in right profile at left, piloted by a standing figure and hosting another seated individual; at upper right, another canoe with two figures is viewed obliquely from the rear while a sketch of a standing boatman is beside it at right. Below these sketches, two canoes with a single figure are shown from the rear. At center, another canoe with two riders is shown obliquely at left, while a seemingly unmanned canoe is visible at right, in right profile. In the lower portion, four incomplete sketches of canoes and figures are included.
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: 1917-4-1138
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 × 27.4 cm (7 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)