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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Sketches of Sheep and a Ram, Colombia or Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache and oxidized white gouache on brown 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

27.4 × 34.4 cm (10 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, center left: L.457c; verso upper center: L.457d; in brown ink, verso upper center: L.457e; verso lower center: L.457e

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sketches of Sheep and a Ram, Colombia or Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); graphite, brush and white gouache and oxidized white gouache on brown wove paper; 27.4 × 34.4 cm (10 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-699

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