Study for "Apotheosis to Thomas Cole"

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Horizontal broadly brushed study of a cavernous setting with several cascades falling into a lake as two people, indicated in the right foreground, stand on a bridge spanning a river and stare at a cross, hovering at upper left, against a blue gray sky; a herd of animals, in the left distance.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
ca. 1847
Accession Number
1917-4-254-b
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
figures
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and oil paint on paperboard.
Dimensions
18 x 25.5 cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
made in
USA
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-254-b
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq429dbab42-8a43-44c2-8982-c844ba4dfd02
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