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Drawing, Crescent Moon

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1860 - 1880 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite 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

11.9 × 19.5 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 6 / 6 / 6; in graphite, upper right: 2 - Greenish smoky / yellow / 3 - More greenish blue / 4 - Blue delicate / 6 - quick orange / lake - / 7 - corresponding purp; in graphite, center: 6 / 4 / 7 6 / 3 2; in graphite, verso upper left: Dark / 6; in graphite, verso upper right: 5 - Cool purple / 6 - steel blue fine; in graphite, upper right: 2 - Gold fire / 3 - streaked yellow dusky / 4 - yellowish / 5 yel blue; in graphite, verso center: 4 / 3 2 / Brandy / warmer / cool purple

Cite this object as

Drawing, Crescent Moon; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey-green wove paper; 11.9 × 19.5 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1168

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