Sunset over the Catskills, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: November and July 1844
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 clouds at sunset over the Catskill Escarpment, likely seen from the town of Catskill, New York. At center, the twin sawtooth peaks of Kaaterskill High and Roundtop loom over Kaaterskill Clove. Just beside the clove at right, at the base of South Mountain, the relatively miniscule Catskill Mountain House is visible. Variously lit clouds hang in the sky above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch of a tall deciduous tree with a split trunk near its base. It grows vertically and has a light canopy of leaves.
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: 1917-4-4
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
label: Dimensions
content: 25.8 × 38.8 cm (10 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.)