Drawing, Cloud study

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated probably 1873–74 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan 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

12.1 × 22 cm (4 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: 2 silvery grey / 3 - Green silver / 4 - Rosy / 5 - red gold / 6 - Dark purple / 7 - warmer & lighter purple; upper center: blute / mottled / 9 / blue / blue; upper right: 8 reddish glow / streaky / 9 greenish / broken with / orange tinted / fragments / 9; center left: laky; center: 5 / 4; lower left: 2 2; lower center: warm / 3 / 7 / 6; lower right: 8; verso upper left: 2 - cool greenish blue / reflected from sky / 3 - Dark greenish blue / light / 4 - laky brown warm / 5 - glowing orange and laky / 6 - Dark purple neut - ; verso upper right: 2 2 / 4 3 4; verso center left: very dark; verso center: Dark steel / blue / 5 / 5; verso center right: 6 / greenish

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