File:Drawing, Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey, September 1878 (CH 18369021).jpg

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Samuel Colman: English: Drawing, Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey, September 1878   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Samuel Colman  (1832–1920)  wikidata:Q1751436
 
Samuel Colman
Description American painter, interior designer and writer
Date of birth/death 4 March 1832 Edit this at Wikidata 26 March 1920 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Portland, Maine New York City
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1751436
Title
English: Drawing, Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey, September 1878
Description
English: Recto: Top row, view from dunes toward the sea and far shore. Color notations written with pencil along left edge. Second row: A dwelling surrounded by trees shown in the middle distance. Third row: sky over the dunes and sea. Masts of ships shown in background. Inscribed with color notations. First row, left: a man with a net, standing in water. Horizontal lines are drawn beneath sketches. Place and date left. Bottom: a tree in the dunes, with color notations written beneath. Verso: At top, an old cedar growing in front of bushes and trees. At bottom of sheet, a bush, with place, name and date. At right, dunes with sea shown in left background.
Date September 1878
date QS:P571,+1878-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium

graphite with watercolor wash on white wove paper

verso: graphite, pen and ink
Dimensions 23.6 x 15.1 cm (9 5/16 x 5 15/16 in. )
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1939-85-31
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Samuel Colman
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Recto: in graphite upper left margin: warm gray sand dune/ [illeg.] of water/ brown grass.

At center: warm clouds [? ] little darker than sky / Forms or soft luminous green to gray/ soft gray/edge of sand darker than sky/ warm gray sand/edge of water light blue/water darker blue than sky/warm green brown; Figure with net in water/ reddish brown vest reddish brown shoes./ Sea Girt. Sept.9th 1878. Across bottom of sheet: warm purplish grey trunk orange reflections

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower middle, towards left: Sea Girt Cedars./ Sept 10th 1878. Middle bottom: Bay / Rich yellow green.

  • Country: United States
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