Imaginary Coastal Landscape with a Tower
date: label: Date
content: 1870–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
label: Attributed to
content: Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing an imagined view of a tower built on coastal cliffs beneath a cloudy sky. At left, a rocky, nearly vertical cliff stretch from the foreground to the middle distance at center, where it hosts a castle with a tall, square tower. At lower center and right, choppy ocean waters extend from the foreground and into the background, where a large prominence and pinnacle are visible along the horizon at right. Above, billowing clouds inhabit an otherwise darkening sky. Scene delineated within a rectangular frame, surrounded by white margins.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished sketches of what appear to be wooden gates, or two doors made of wood planks. Two crossing planks are cut off along the upper margin, while another incomplete linear design is visible at right. The vertical lines trail off. Forms a complete (yet still indistinct) image with 1917-4-541.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-533
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink on off-white laid paper: verso: pen and ink
label: Dimensions
content: 8.9 × 11.5 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)