Trunk of a Dead Birch Tree, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1876 - 1881
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing the trunk of a dead birch tree, whose white bark peels off like rolls of paper, reveal dark wood below. Roughly oriented along the central vertical axis.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose, unfinished sketch showing a portion of tree trunk with a broken branch.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-74-c
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.2 × 10 cm (6 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.)