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Drawing, Landscape with Rain

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 white chalk on grey-green 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

10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso center, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, 3 2; in graphite, lower left [not in Church's hand]: 1860; in graphite, lower margin: 2 Top of arc of Rainbow / powerful effect 3 Distant mountains tinted / with marvellous purple

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape with Rain; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite and white chalk on grey-green wove paper; 10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1166-b

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