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Theodore Cole Pulling his Toy Sailboat, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
August 1844
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 18.8 × 11.9 cm (7 3/8 × 4 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- New York
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Figure sketch of a boy, Thomas Cole's son, Theodore, playing with a toy sailboat on the bank of a stream or river. Wearing a straw hat and viewed from from behind, Theodore kneels by the water, extending his arm as he pulls a string attached to the boat. At left, a tree is loosely and indistinctly rendered, while steep banks are visible in the background at center.
