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Drawing, Sunset, Bar Harbor, Maine
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on light green 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
26.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, verso center right, L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Blue gradually blending / into the dusky cirrus / very / softened / edges / same; in graphite, upper center: smoky blue / smoky shadows & gold; in graphite, center: orange gold / Delicate purple shadow gold glaze / pink light / splendid gold cirri / in streaks; in graphite, lower right: gold still / grey blue - wind / calm / calm with swell breaking in with blue lines; in graphite, verso right margin [David Huntington's hand]: Bar Harbor - D.C.H. 11/63
Cite this object as
Drawing, Sunset, Bar Harbor, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on light green wove paper; 26.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/8 × 17 15/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1277-b
