Shaking Hands and a Gnarled Tree Trunk, Catskill, New York

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1844

Shaking Hands and a Gnarled Tree Trunk, Catskill, New York, 1844

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Figure and botanical sketches showing a pair of shaking hands and the gnarled trunk of a white cedar tree in Catskill, New York. At upper left, two interwoven hands are shown holding one another, presumably shaking. At center, the gnarled, twisting trunk of a white cedar tree is finely rendered. At upper right, details of the tree's leaves and cones are visible. At lower right, other leaves are also included. Graphite on off-white wove paper

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