Clouds over Mountains
date: label: Date
content: March 22, 1856
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose landscape sketch showing a view of a vibrant sunset over a mountainous landscape, seemingly with a lake at lower center.The sky, with its layered, wispy clouds, occupies the upper half of the composition, while the contour of a rugged mountain ridge is visible at center left. Below, the surface of a lake appears to reflect the clouds above.
label: Description
content: Verso: List of numbered notations explicating colors and appearances of features in an adjacent drawing.
place: label: made in
content: New York or Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: New York or 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: 1917-4-1188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.8 × 11.6 cm (3 7/16 × 4 9/16 in.)