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Drawing, Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York, September 1870

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1870 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil, graphite on paperboard. 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

32.2 x 35.2 cm (12 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, verso center: L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed by scratching oil paint, lower left: Sep / /70

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York, September 1870; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil, graphite on paperboard; 32.2 x 35.2 cm (12 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.) ; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-582-c

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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