Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of several houses on a hilltop overlooking rolling terrain in Italy, with other buildings visible in the background at right. At center, a large villa is perched atop the hill's highest point, while at least two other buildings are situated to its left. One building spews a column of smoke from its chimney. Horizon comprised of rolling hills.
- Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a cave entrance on a body of water in Italy. At center, the rough, undulating forms of the rock face are illuminated by light reflect off of the water. Forms are indistinct and nearly abstract.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- October 1868 - April 1869
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
