Drawing, Morning Landscape

The rising sun in a blue sky is shown over the tops of hills.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Upper Aletsch Glacier with the Great Fusshorn, August 27, 1868 #museumarchive #cooperhewittdesignmuseum http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23128
Drawing, Upper Aletsch Glacier with the Great Fusshorn

Horizontal study of the Aletsch Glacier across two sheets of paper (-a & -b). The sheet shows roughly one third of the view. The glacier is in the foreground against a backdrop of mountain slopes. Notations throughout, including: Trees; clear / stones in streaks; dirty but light / tolerably / smooth; clear; dirt; grey [?]. Verso: Small sketch with a mound in the rear, inscribed: Great glacier bed / light grey; Ice [?] dirty.

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Drawing, Seated Soldier

Vertical view of a soldier seated, seen from the rear.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece, April 1869 #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22894
Drawing, Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece

Horizontal view of the Parthenon lit at night.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Arch of Septimius Severus from "Vedute di Roma", 1759 #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #museumarchive https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/72345
Print, Arch of Septimius Severus from "Vedute di Roma"

Horizontal Rectangle. Arch of Septimus Severus in center at mid-distance. Right: the church, SS Martina e Lucca; left foreground, column of PHOCAS; lower right, "Piranesi Architetto fec."; title, in center; text along left margin: "Erario antic ... al campidoglio". Lower right: "Presso l'autore a Strada Felice...a paoli due e mezzo".

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Frederic Edwin Church, Portrait of Bolivian Girl: Senorita Filetta Molina Bolador del Carmen, Colombia, July 13, 1853 #chndm #cooperhewittdesignmuseum https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23615
Drawing, Portrait of Bolivian Girl: Senorita Filetta Molina Bolador del Carmen, Colombia

Vertical view of half figure of a standing girl, drawn in the left center of sheet with a part of one plait of hair shown.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Fleet of Mackerel Fishers, Mount Desert, Maine, August 19, 1850 #openaccess #cooperhewittdesignmuseum https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23486
Drawing, Fleet of Mackerel Fishers, Mount Desert, Maine

Horizontal distant view of fleet of mackerel fishing boats sailing toward left across the horizon and filling the top margin.

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