Eagle's Nest and Dog's Head
date: label: Date
content: probably 1856
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches showing, at left, the face and snout of a dog in right profile, and at right, an eagle's nest perched atop a columnar tree trunk who branches have largely broken off. The head of an eaglet peeks out of the nest.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose atmosphere sketch showing, at right, the puffy, layered forms of a billowing cumulus cloud. Seemingly unfinished.
place: label: made in
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: 1917-4-1140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 9.7 × 14.8 cm (3 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)