Three Cows on a Road in the Woods
date: label: Date
content: 1844–56
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of three cows on a dirt road in the woods. Possibly a scene witnessed in Catskill, New York or Vermont, it is loosely rendered and includes a rugged mountain range outlined in the background at center. At left and right, groups of deciduous trees with lush canopies cast a dark shadow over the road, which is marked with noticeable cart tracks. Three cows stand in the road at center, the rightmost one looks back at us.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches of a table and a loose view of an alligator. Dominating the composition at center and right is a partial elevation of a table. Its leg is shaped like a baluster and the corner of the frame like a bracket. At left and oriented to the left is an indistinct design labeled "alligator." It could be an extremely loose alligator or a three-arched bridge.
place: label: probably made in
content: New York or Vermont, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: New York or Vermont, 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: 1917-4-21
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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: 8.4 × 15.5 cm (3 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.)