View on the Kaauterskill, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: September and October 1844
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 the village of Catskill, New York, from a prominence above Kaaterskill Creek. A property with a house and fenced-in, cultivated land is shown in the foreground at lower center. Beyond it, Kaaterskill Creek winds around a heavily wooded prominence at left. In the middle distance at center, a dam visibly cuts across the creek. A large, heavily wooded hill is shown in the middle distance at upper right, in front of the outline of the Catskill Escarpment along the horizon, with Blackhead Mountain prominently visible at upper center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches of figures and a tree in Catskill, New York. Two sketches of a figure shown from the rear--likely the same individual, possibly a fisherman or farmer--are visible at upper center. At center right, a tree with a lush, billowing canopy is loosely sketched with dark branches.
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: 1917-4-1402
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 off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 × 38.7 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)