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Church, Frederic Edwin,
Landscape -- River
Landscape -- Weather
Architecture -- Boat
Figure male
Painting
Rapids of the Susquehanna, (painting).
Artist:
Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900, painter.
Title:
Rapids of the Susquehanna, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1846.
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
22 1/4 x 30 3/16 in. (56.5 x 76.7 cm).
Description:
View of the Susquehanna River with a small ferry carrying a horse-drawn carriage across the middle of rough water. On the shore in the foreground a figure stands looking out at the ferry. The sky is dark and stormy.
Subject:
Landscape -- River -- Susquehanna River
Landscape -- Weather -- Storm
Architecture -- Boat -- Ferry
Figure male
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1863.8
Provenance:
Acquired 1850.
References:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 193-194.
Illustration:
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 110.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 06910229
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