Scene near Hartford, Connecticut
date: label: Date
content: April 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a mill building situated in a wooded environment on a spit of land that juts into a stream at left and right. A broken split-rail fence stretches across the foreground at center left, beyond which a stream winds around gentle banks into the middle distance. At center, a well-kept mill building is shown with a lean-to built against its exterior wall. Tall, leafy trees frame the scene at left and right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the first part of a panorama of rolling rapids on a wide river. At right, the river's churning, undulating water flows over ledges and rocks on the riverbed, appearing like a crashing wave. Above, a flat horizon is shown in the distance.
place: label: made in
content: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hartford, Connecticut, 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: 1917-4-1439
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.3 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.)