Figures and Doodles
date: label: Date
content: 1848–56
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches of figures and doodles. In the upper portion, two hybrid bird-humans are sketched in left profile beside a face at upper right, and the decayed carcass of a turkey at upper center. At center, a face is surrounded by loose forms, including two concentric circles and a possible boat, at left. At lower right, a figure resembling a sitting owl is viewed frontally as it wears a hat. At lower left, a fish is sketched beside an indistinct form resembling an elephant's head.
label: Description
content: Verso: Seascape sketches showing a view of three ships (or three views of the same ship) as they sail out to sea from left to right. At lower left, a lone figure sits in a rowboat that faces left. A flat horizon stretches across the scene in the background.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-1280
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 23.8 × 12.2 cm (9 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)