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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Views on the Danube

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 9-17, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan 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

17.7 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center left: shadow / water coffee color / on Danube; in graphite, center right: grey / with / orange / blotches; in graphite, lower left: green / yel and / green grass / 3 / 2 / red / 2 - yel grass / over red rock / 3 - grey / Deep / green Trees / Danube; in graphite, lower right: On Danube

Cite this object as

Drawing, Views on the Danube; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on tan wove paper; 17.7 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-904

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