Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York
date: label: Date
content: probably July 1858
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed figure sketches around East Hampton, New York showing eight views of geese and three partial or complete figures. At upper right, two grazing geese are shown in right profile; below them, another grazing goose is pictured from the rear, with a sketch of a goose's head in left profile below it. At center, a standing goose is viewed from the rear, while in the lower right corner, a standing goose is shown in right profile while another is shown obliquely from the rear. Finally, in the lower left corner, another standing goose is rendered in left profile, while in the upper left corner, a standing figure wearing a dress and hat (ostensibly a woman) is viewed from the rear while they appear to feed the geese. At left, the incomplete outline of a torso is included, while at right, a bearded man's head is shown in right profile.
place: label: made in
content: East Hampton, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: East Hampton, 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: 1917-4-1309-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.8 × 17.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 in.)