South Face, Mt. Katahdin, Maine
date: label: Date
content: August 1852
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 the south face of Mt. Katahdin in Maine, as viewed from the south or southeast. Trees cover rolling terrain in the foreground, interspersed with large boulders. At right, a steep, wooded gully extends up the mountain from the foreground into the middle distance. A large, bulging ridge forms a triangle roughly at the center. Behind, the rugged, serrated ridge of Mt. Katahdin stretches across the composition and features a particularly sharp, pyramidal summit at upper center beside another rounded one at right. Rocks all along the mountainside are highlighted in white gouache.
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: 1917-4-631
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.8 x 44.3 cm (12 1/2 x 17 7/16 in.)