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Drawing, Cloud Sketches

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1875–1880 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white 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 × 22.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: old style / smoke / dark; upper center: 4 palish copper; upper right: light yel green / lower half / inclined to green; center left: Delicate / blurred green/ bright; center: 3 / 2 / 2 - pale brilliant orange / 3 - gold streaks-; center right: dark purp / 4 4 / greenish; lower right: 4 / purp; verso upper right: 2 2 2 / [---] blue / all / around / Dark neut / greenish / at horizon / 2 - rosy -; verso center left: [struck out: Boots] / [struck out: fringe] / Knoedler- / [struck out: Vaux - Gran [?]] / Saline - / Hypophosphate / Mangoes / [---] Work / Fireworks /Shirts / Silleck [?] Base / Willy Wallach / paper 41 - [---] / Liederman / 18 Beekman / special blanks; verso lower left: Jacksons / Architectural [---] Wks / blue / blue / Beekman St

Cite this object as

Drawing, Cloud Sketches; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; 17.7 × 22.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1522

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