Distant Farm Buildings, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August 1844 and August 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing, at center, a view of a farmhouse with two outbuildings on a cleared hilltop with two trees in Catskill, New York. Another building is showng behind this property, partly down the hill at left. In the background, the outlines of distant rolling hills or mountains are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Lanscape and figure sketch showing a young lady--possibly Thomas Cole's daughter, Mary--sitting against a tree with a split trunk as she looks down at a pitcher and milk pail on the ground at lower left. She appears to have a robe or long coat wrapped around her shoulders and over her dress. Behind, indistinct vegetation is loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphie
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)