Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketches showing three stacked views of a town on a hill in the Italian countryside. In the upper portion, bluffs topped with several trees are loosely rendered. In the middle section, a distant town on a prominence is shown within an otherwise expansive and rolling wooded landscape. In lower portion and oppositely oriented, a closer view of the town is shown, with one prominent tower.
- Verso: Mixed architectural and landscape sketches showing views of vine-covered ruins at upper right, a castle on a hill at left, a mill building at lower left and oriented to the left, and, at lower right and oriented to the right, a view of a road beside stones and trees is shown.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- 1868–1869
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on grey-green laid paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 11.9 cm (8 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
