Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view overlooking buildings and roofs in Rome, Italy. Roofs and exterior walls are shown in the foreground at left and right, likely houses flanking the street shown in the middle distance at center. At right, a large figural statue rises above a house. It stands upon a globe, which itself is supported by a column capital. In the middle distance, the cityscape extends to a smoky and indefinite horizon. A blue sky shines above a red and yellow layer of haze that blankets the city.
- Verso: Architecture sketch in graphite of the statue and adjoining roofs shown on the recto.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- November 1868 - April 1869
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.1 x 25.7 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
