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Drawing, The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1850–1851 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil and graphite over red ground on cardboard. 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.

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Its dimensions are

30.6 × 40.6 cm (12 1/16 × 16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite [?], lower left: WATSON

Cite this object as

Drawing, The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil and graphite over red ground on cardboard; 30.6 × 40.6 cm (12 1/16 × 16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-645

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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