Drawing, Sunset over the Hudson River, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 19, 1866 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite. 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

11.9 × 21.8 cm (4 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: 2 - Dazzling like sun / gold / 3 - very luminous redder / shadows dark warm neut / 4 - Delicious redder gold / lights exquisitely flecked / park running into strong / shadow / open sky - lower part / greenish dullish upper / part cooler and bluer; in graphite, center left: 4 / 2 / 3; in graphite, lower center: warm neut / cool purp / water steel; in graphite, lower right: July 19 /66; in graphite, verso upper center: yel / red; in graphite, center: 5 / 3 2 / 4 / 4; in graphite, lower left: July 19 /66; in graphite, lower right: 2 yellowish Daylight / 3 warmer / 4 smoky neut / 5 cool steel blue

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