Dazzling Meteor over Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: May 1863 and 1862
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 a meteor streaking across the night sky, as seen from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, a wooded slope at left descends towards the center, where the top of another tree is shown. Low clouds backdrop these forms. Visible in the sky at center, a distinct ball with a streaking tail--that is, a meteor--flies across the sky from left to right. Other puffy clouds are vaguely visible at upper right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a large, distant, and billowing cloud bank, likely over the Hudson River Valley. Stretching across the center of the composition, the cloud's puffy, rounded forms ascend to the right, leading to a layered, billowing summit of clouds at far right. At lower left, another cloud--or possibly the surface of a river--is included.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-512
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; verso: graphite