Shaking Hands and a Gnarled Tree Trunk, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: September 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and botanical sketches showing a pair of shaking hands and the gnarled trunk of a white cedar tree in Catskill, New York. At upper left, two interwoven hands are shown holding one another, presumably shaking. At center, the gnarled, twisting trunk of a white cedar tree is finely rendered. At upper right, details of the tree's leaves and cones are visible. At lower right, other leaves are also included.
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: 1917-4-605
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 × 38.7 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)