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Drawing, Great Basin, Mount Katahdin, Maine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated before 1878 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, traces of graphite on paperboard. 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

Sheet: 30.5 x 32.9 cm (12 x 12 15/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 60.3 x 44.8 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Verso: Inscribed in graphite: "Katahdin".

Cite this object as

Drawing, Great Basin, Mount Katahdin, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, traces of graphite on paperboard; Sheet: 30.5 x 32.9 cm (12 x 12 15/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 60.3 x 44.8 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-632

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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