Drawing, The Catskill Escarpment at Sunset, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated possibly 1860 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite and oxidized white gouache on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite and oxidized white gouache. 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

11.9 × 19.6 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Dusky; in graphite, upper center: Dusky / 6 / 6; in graphite, upper right: 5 8; in graphite, center left: 7 / 4 / Clouds blue grey with / cold reflected lights / glow; in graphite, center: 3 / 2 2 / purple / redder / greener; in graphite, center right: reddish Dull; in graphite, lower left: 5 - topaz light / 6 - beautiful light blue blurred with / cirri 7 - 4 [ends &?] fades into smoky [struckout: streaky cirri] / cirri across light cirri / 8 - Dark purple; in graphite, lower right: Golden sun with glow / 2 - Rich yellowish glow / 3 - Neut red & yel / 4 more purplish whole smoky; in graphite, verso upper center: light blue / Dark cool / purple laky / golden lights / 3 / 2; in graphite, upper right: smoky streak; in graphite, center: laky golden / smoky neut / brilliant edge golden smoky / purple laky; in graphite, center right: Dull red; in graphite, lower left: 2 - nearly green sky yellowish / 3 - Delicious light blue lights

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