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Confluence of Catskill and Kaaterskill,
1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-78.6v
Information
Title
Confluence of Catskill and Kaaterskill
Dates
1844
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
28.4 x 43 cm (11 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1940-78.6v
Place Depicted
United States, New York
Signatures
Dated in graphite, lower center: August 5th 1844
Inscription
in graphite, lower right: Confluence of Catskill & Kaaterskill
in graphite, throughout: [notations]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Bought from Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, Cole's granddaughter at his Catskill studio
Confluence of Catskill & Kaaterskill/August 5th 1844
- Louis Hawes, "A Sketchbook by Thomas Cole", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 2-23., fig. 8, p. 14 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., Appendix pp. 133-134
- Pamela J Belanger and J Gray Sweeney, Inventing Acadia: artists and tourists at Mount Desert, (Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999).
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
- Tara Dawson, Bartholomew F. Bland, and Laura L. Vookles, et. al., The panoramic river: the Hudson and the Thames, (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013).
