Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view overlooking rooftops in Rome at sunset. In the foreground, nearby buildings are loosely rendered in shades of brown and grey. In the middle distance, city buildings extend indistinctly to the distant horizon, below which the sun has just set. The sun's light renders the horizon a fiery yellow and the clouds above rich tones of red, orange, and purple.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
November 1868–April 1869
Accession Number
1917-4-611-c
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
architecture
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
28.2 × 38.6 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
made in
Rome, Italy
place depicted
Rome, Italy
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-611-c