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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Rugged Tree, Niagara Falls

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1858 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on light brown wove 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

29.8 × 25.4 cm (11 3/4 × 10 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left: L.457c; in brown ink, verso center, L.457e

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: green water; in graphite, center right: - Memorandum / outer edge Rainbow orange / and warm tints / reflected Rainbow / Inside the bow cool / side ground color / light outside darkened / Between double bow / dark land; in graphite, lower center: Water between the branches / Dark Turqouise green opaque color / Niagara Sep 1858

Cite this object as

Drawing, Rugged Tree, Niagara Falls; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Canada; graphite on light brown wove paper; 29.8 × 25.4 cm (11 3/4 × 10 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-181

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