Wigwam, Niagara Falls, graphite sketch by Frederic Edwin Church

A pencil sketch of a bark-covered wigwam with a low, arched frame and a dark doorway opening at the front, set among thin trees. A second, fainter wigwam appears at the left edge, and handwritten notes and a circular stamp mark the paper. The loose graphite lines show texture in the bark sheathing and the ground.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

1858

Medium

Graphite on gray-green wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3999 × 2518 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum