File:Drawing, Figures and a Signal Tower, Egypt, possibly 1868 (CH 18197563).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, Figures and a Signal Tower, Egypt, possibly 1868   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
Title
English: Drawing, Figures and a Signal Tower, Egypt, possibly 1868
Description
English: Recto: Top row: half figure of a seated man, shown from the back; a group of four seated men; a walking man, shown turned toward left; a walking woman carrying a baby, shown turned toward right; a head. Bottom row: bust of a man show de face with lowered head; half figure of a man shown bending forward and leaning upon a stick; a child; a walking woman with a stick, shown from the right back. And at right shown full height: a signal tower in a port. Verso: Top row: a small square building with a dome and a part of a structure, both obliquely shown; a row boat; and at bottom left: sky with moon and clouds.
Date possibly 1868
Medium graphite on cream-colored paper
Dimensions 8.6 × 12.3 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-37
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Inscriptions Stamped in ink, at lower left: Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Recto: Inscribed in graphite, at top left: yellowish / w / grey; at top center: L [light] blue; at center left: yel / w / blue; and at bottom left: 2 yellow / brown / red brown / 2.

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at top left: Jaffa; at center: luminous green blue 2; and across bottom: moonlit cloud (2 ) shadow thrown by cloud.

Inscribed by a hand other than the artist's at lower left in graphite: Presented 1914 / Mr. L. P. Church 450.

  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: Egypt
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