Cloud and Boat Sketches, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: June 30, 1866
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a loosely-rendered view of an illuminated cloud bank at sunset in or near Hudson, New York. The clouds are thicker at center and disperse as they climb into the sky. Isolated in a rectangular frame in the upper left corner, the silhouette of a double-masted steamboat--presumably traveling along the Hudson River--is shown in right profile.
label: Description
content: Verso: Indistinct sketch showing several intersecting and overlapping lines whose converging rectangular and trapezoidal sections are shaded through cross hatching.
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: 1917-4-1091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 21.8 cm (4 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)