Moonlight
date: label: Date
content: 1860–65
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a full, orange moon at center that shines warmly over a darkened, nocturnal landscape of rolling hills. A dimly lit tree in right foreground serves as a framing device. The clouds above the moon reflect its glow.
place: label: probably made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1319-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on heavy cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 40.7 cm (12 1/16 in. × 16 in.)