Rainbow in the Mountains
date: label: Date
content: 1865–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a rainbow in a rainy and cloudy sky, above a rolling, mountainous landscape. At left, a portion of the rainbow is visible between a treetop (or low-lying cloud) at lower left and another, larger cloud at center left. Several dark and overlapping clouds fill the sky at upper center while a rolling mountain range is visible in the background at lower center. At lower left, a green hillside nearby is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a portion of a cloud, at far right.
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: 1917-4-1174-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on dark gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.7 cm (4 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)