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Drawing, Niagara from Goat Island, Winter

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated March 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Alchemy In Situ.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

29.3 x 44 cm (11 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in brush and red oil, lower left center: F. Church 56 / March.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Niagara from Goat Island, Winter; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard; 29.3 x 44 cm (11 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-765-a

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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