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Drawing, Cloud Studies over Towers

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated ca. 1870 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on cream laid paper. 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

16.7 × 20.5 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: Bath

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: rich deep blue; lower margin: 2- Dazzling white with golden dusky shadow tints / 3- Deep blue shadows shade of steel gradates into shadow of 2 / 4- Dazzling gold white - smoky warm lights on other clouds Verso: Inscribed in graphite, right center: Coulon[?]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Cloud Studies over Towers; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on cream laid paper; 16.7 × 20.5 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1521

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