Drawing, Steamboat on the Hudson River, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 1874 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green laid 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

12 × 21.8 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: smoky gold almost greenish / later; in graphite, center: rich orange brown / & purple shadows / mist pale purple / shadows cool indigo purple and watery greys -; in graphite, lower center: sky grading from smoky gold / to warm purple; in graphite, verso upper right: all aglow/ orange / Dazzling; in graphite, verso center right: laky shadow / cooler / darker / greener; in graphite, verso lower center: June 1874; in graphite, verso lower right: bluer -

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