Clouds at Sunset over Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: February 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose sketch of clouds during a vibrant sunset over Rome, Italy. At center, a tall, dark, billowing cloud is shown towering over others nearby. In the background, hazy clouds fill the sky. Below, a dark, wooded landscape is hastily rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a sun beam bursting down through a bank of dark, puffy clouds onto a flat landscape that extends to a mountainous horizon. At right, what appear to be two structures are loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1917-4-927
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 21.2 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)