Moonlight
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Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape/atmospheric study a full, orange moon at center that shines warmly over darkened, nocturnal landscape of rolling hills. A dimly-lit tree in right foreground serves as a framing device.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- ca. 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-1319-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on heavy cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30.6 × 40.7 cm (12 1/16 in. × 16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-1319-a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49560b266-9b87-402a-8d79-2357cc48db73
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