Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of the base of a large tree within a dense forest, possibly in Vermont. Rising through the central vertical axis, a broad tree trunk, rendered in great detail, is partly wreathed in moss around its roots. Before it, in the immediate foreground, debris, soil, and undergrowth is visible. In the background, numerous thinner trees populate the woods among a mass of yellow-green vegetation.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- possibly October 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-589-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on white paperboard
- Dimensions
- 36 × 28.1 cm (14 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- place probably depicted
- Vermont, 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_1917-4-589-c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dd764998-e6f2-4f3e-af23-3b0d5b934fa4
