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Drawing, Mount Katahdin from Lake Katahdin, Maine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated ca. 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint on thin 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.

  • Frieze (USA)
  • machine-printed paper.
  • Gift of Paul F. Franco.
  • 1938-50-16

Its dimensions are

22.7 x 30.3 cm (8 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mount Katahdin from Lake Katahdin, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint on thin paperboard; 22.7 x 30.3 cm (8 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.) ; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-323-c

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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