Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and architecture sketch showing a distanced and elevated view of an Italian Gothic church or cathedral in a town in southern Switzerland or northern Italy. In the foreground at right, the side of a nearby building is shown with a window and a door. In the middle distance at center, a church is viewed obliquely and features a tall, rectangular belltower with two levels of arched openings. At left, another church with a spire is visible. In the background, a rolling mountain range forms the horizon, while a partly cloud sky is loosely rendered above.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- August - September, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 20.8 × 28.4 cm (8 3/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
