Sketches of a Backlit Cloud, Steamship, and Sailboat
date: label: Date
content: 1865–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches showing views of a backlit cloud, a steamship, and a sailboat, likely near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At upper left, three large sunbeams emanate from behind a billowing cloud that has a silver lining. At upper right, a steamship is shown in left profile as its plume of smoke dissipates off to the right. At lower right, a sailboat in left profile is included.
place: label: place probably depicted
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: probably made in
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1177
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)