Dead and Broken Tree
date: label: Date
content: 1851–1881
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical and landscape sketch showing a view of a dead tree that has broken mid-way up its trunk, visible at right, while its collapsed upper boughs rest on the ground at center and left. A small sapling grows beside the dead trunk at right, while other, loosely-rendered vegetation covers the forest floor.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and oxidizing white gouache on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.1 × 44.3 cm (12 1/4 × 17 7/16 in.)