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Drawing, Clouds above a Rolling Landscape, Hartford, Connecticut, August and October 1844
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August and October 1844 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
25.7 × 38.7 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: 1 sun obscured with a misty atmosphere (yellow, brilliant) / 2 softened off into an orange / 3 An warm indescribable color softening off by degrees where the dots . . . . are, into the blue sky 5- / 6 An exceedingly beautiful thin fleecy cloud yellowish and birght (golden) / 7 red / 8 streaky; upper right: H / 6; center: 7 7 5 / 7 4 7 / 8 2 1 3; lower right: Aug 1844; verso center: Oct 1844
Cite this object as
Drawing, Clouds above a Rolling Landscape, Hartford, Connecticut, August and October 1844; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite; 25.7 × 38.7 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1390
