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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Trees on a Rock, near the Obersee, Bavaria (Germany)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on beige 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

24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: Walnuts / This tree rich brown moss / and knots grey bark - dead / rock & moss; in graphite, lower right: Trees on Rock / Sep /68 / -Obersee-

Cite this object as

Drawing, Trees on a Rock, near the Obersee, Bavaria (Germany); Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on beige wove paper; 24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1305

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