Drawing, Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey

This is a Drawing. It was created by Samuel Colman. It is dated September 1878 and we acquired it in 1939. Its medium is graphite with watercolor wash on white wove paper verso: graphite, pen and ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Samuel Colman. It is credited Gift of Mrs. Samuel Colman.

Its dimensions are

23.6 x 15.1 cm (9 5/16 x 5 15/16 in. )

It is inscribed

Recto: in graphite upper left margin: warm gray sand dune/ [illeg.] of water/ brown grass. At center: warm clouds [? ] little darker than sky / Forms or soft luminous green to gray/ soft gray/edge of sand darker than sky/ warm gray sand/edge of water light blue/water darker blue than sky/warm green brown; Figure with net in water/ reddish brown vest reddish brown shoes./ Sea Girt. Sept.9th 1878. Across bottom of sheet: warm purplish grey trunk orange reflections Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower middle, towards left: Sea Girt Cedars./ Sept 10th 1878. Middle bottom: Bay / Rich yellow green.

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