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File:Drawing, Mt. Desert Island, Maine Coast, 1850 (CH 18200243).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: Mount Desert Island, Maine Coast  wikidata:Q20201920 reasonator:Q20201920
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
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
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Title
English: Drawing, Mt. Desert Island, Maine Coast, 1850
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A large group of rocks at lower right foreground, jut out into a body of water. On the horizon line at center left is the distant shoreline. Two small sailboats at center. Scattered clouds fill top half of painting.
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on cream wove paper
Dimensions height: 19.6 cm (7.7 in); width: 30.5 cm (12 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,30.5U174728
(7 11/16 x 12 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-646
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: In brush and black oil paint, bottom right: "M. Desert / 1850".
  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: United States
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