Alpine Town
date: label: Date
content: August - September, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a distanced and elevated view of an Italian Gothic church or cathedral in a town in southern Switzerland or northern Italy. In the foreground at right, the side of a nearby building is shown with a window and a door. In the middle distance at center, a church is viewed obliquely and features a tall, rectangular belltower with two levels of arched openings. At left, another church with a spire is visible. In the background, a rolling mountain range forms the horizon, while a partly cloud sky is loosely rendered above.
place: label: probably made in
content: Switzerland or Italy
label: place probably depicted
content: Switzerland or 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: 1917-4-1080
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 20.8 × 28.4 cm (8 3/16 × 11 3/16 in.)