Drawing, Sky over ridge

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 18, 1867 and March 1867 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey wove paper; verso: graphite. 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 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 2 - Golden grey / 3 - Meadows golden green / 4 - grass splendid vivid green / Everything green in the foreground a fresh vigorous vivid green / and gradually melting as objects recede into the sky tint / - no - brilliant light. The intensity of color lies in the greens -; in graphite, upper right: In foreground ploughed field rich sienna / brown with potato plants green -; in graphite, center: 2 / brown; in graphite, lower left: June 18th / 67; in graphite, lower right: 3 3 / 4; in graphite, verso upper center: fine blue; in graphite, verso upper right: 2 Dazzling rich orange gold / mottled streaks / 3 - redder soft brown shadows / 4 - subdued; in graphite, center left: blue / 2; in graphite, center: 3 / 4 / golden green warm / smoky brown green / purp; in graphite, verso lower center: blue white grey luminous; in graphite, verso lower right: March / 67

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