Drawing, Cloud Sketch

This is a drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1844 - 1846 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on 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

11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper margin: 1 The upper edge of this cloud is quite brilliantly tipped with yellow / 2 A fuzzy appearance yellow and orange at the lower parts of the (fuzziness) / 3 Stylish purple - 4, yellowish light / 5 numerous broken clouds purple (dark) with a golden edge toward the sun / 6 greenish gold blending into - 6 - an exquisite light blue / 7 the most brilliant clouds of all dazzlingly yellow on the outer edge / 8 The mountains are etherial [sic] beautiful dark purple. / 9 This cloud is of a darkish idescribable [sic] color of grey at the edges lower / part yellowish bright; in graphite, center: 6 6 / 1 / 2 7 7 7 7 9 9 / 2 2 2 / 8 6 / 5 5 5 / 4 3 3; in graphite, verso upper left: 2 bright; in graphite, verso center: bluish grey / 2 / dark landscape; in graphite, verso lower center: light

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