Theodore Cole Pulling his Toy Sailboat, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketch of a boy, Thomas Cole's son, Theodore, playing with a toy sailboat on the bank of a stream or river. Wearing a straw hat and viewed from from behind, Theodore kneels by the water, extending his arm as he pulls a string attached to the boat. At left, a tree is loosely and indistinctly rendered, while steep banks are visible in the background at center.
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: 1917-4-998-a
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
label: Dimensions
content: 18.8 × 11.9 cm (7 3/8 × 4 11/16 in.)