Drawing, Sky over mountains

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 25, 1863 and July 6, 1863 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green 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 × 19.5 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 7 - luminous smoky russet yellow, warm / 8 - clearer yellowish / 9 - Clouds with dully lakey and orange lights; in graphite, upper right: 2 - Dazzling orange warm / 1863 / 3 - fiery neutral grading into pinky & greenish / 4 - faintly illuminated edges reddish / 5 - neut yellowish bloom / 6 - greenish grey neut; in graphite, center: 9 / Dark pleasant grey / 8 / 7 / 6 / 3 / 2 3 / 4 4 / 5; in graphite, lower left: [Van D]yke [?] / June 25th - 1863; in graphite, lower center: mountains a little more purple than clouds; in graphite, verso center: cool / orange

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