Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketches around Catskill, New York, showing views of the trunk of a dead birch tree, at left, and at right, several shapes and figures perceived in the clouds by the young Church. At upper right, the forms of a dog and a figure on horseback are shown. At center, a winged figure like an angel is visible above a bird- or dove-shaped cloud. At lower right are two details of this cloud formation.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch at upper left of a standing boy viewed from behind and facing away from the viewer as he wears a brimmed hat and a smock.
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: 1917-4-1417
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 on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.8 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)