Elm Tree, Hartford, Connecticut
date: label: Date
content: October 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch of an elm tree in Hartford, Connecticut. Dominating the composition at center, the tree has a lush canopy, roughly spherical in shape, with lower boughs that nearly reach the ground. Its dark branches are visible throughout.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing views of two 17th-century English women in Puritan dress beside a horse viewed from the rear (both drawings are preparatory sketches for the artist's finished work, "Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636" from 1846), as well as a view of St. John's Church in Hartford, Connecticut (demolished). At upper right, two women are shown frontally as they are adorned in the wide-brimmed hats and frilly collars (known as ruffs) typical to 17th century English Puritan dress. Below them at lower right, a horse is viewed obliquely from the rear as it is highlighted in white gouache (this is the central horse in "Hooker and Company"). At center left, the tall, tapering, and extremely sharp spire of the now-demolished St. John's Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut, is shown beside other rooftops and beyond a lush tree at right.
place: label: made in
content: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hartford, Connecticut, 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: 1917-4-742
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 17.9 × 21.4 cm (7 1/16 × 8 7/16 in.)