Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: December 22, 1870
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 view of a child eating at a table and the sun setting behind Overlook Mountain, witnessed on the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At upper left, the sun is shown as it begins to dip behind Overlook Mountain during a winter sunset. At center, a young boy with a displeased expression--possibly the artist's oldest surviving son, Frederic Joseph Church--is viewed obliquely as he puts his fork and knife to a plate that lies on a table with a tablecloth. A tear rolls down his discontented face and he looks down to this plate with a furrowed brow and a sneering expression. He also wears a bib around his neck.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sunset in the Hudson River Valley, viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The Hudson River itself is loosely rendered in the middle distance at left, while the ridge of the Catskill Escarpment extends from the background at left to center, where either a rain shower or a dark shadow is cast upon the mountains. Loose, puffy clouds inhabit the sky above.
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: 1917-4-1002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.5 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)