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Drawing, Looking South from the Farm, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1860 - 1880 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white paperboard. 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

19.4 × 12.7 cm (7 5/8 × 5 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso center, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower margin: warm puls[?] / 6 - glow on this side water silver grey / 2 - warm reddish faintly light green sky / 3 - delicious glowing neutral shadow warm / fading into steel blue / 4 - splendid orange and rosy cirri banked by[?] / 5 - wonderful blue grading d[?] into / greenish smoky towards the west / heavier / 5 - broken up with lines and mottled; additional figure notations throughout.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Looking South from the Farm, Hudson, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white paperboard; 19.4 × 12.7 cm (7 5/8 × 5 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1151

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