Gnarled Tree Trunks and a Grape Vine, Catskill, New York
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: Botanical sketches from Catskill, New York, showing views of gnarled and twisting tree trunks, at upper left and upper right, and two views of grape vines at lower left. All forms finely rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sunset behind the Catskill Mountains, as seen from the village of Catskill, New York. Wide crepuscular rays (also known as sun rays, sun beams, or God rays) radiate into the sky from behind the mountain range.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1400
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.6 × 38.3 cm (10 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.)