Distant View of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: October 1868 - April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing the skyline of Rome, likely from the northwest, prominently featuring the Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica at center. The outlines of other buildings in the cityscape extend to left and right. Above, light, elongated clouds hang in the sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch showing a view of a group of barren, twisted tree trunks and boughs that overlap with one another. At left, the undulating forms of three trees are grouped together while another is partially sketched at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Rome, Italy
label: made in
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: 1917-4-157
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.7 × 12.3 cm (3 7/16 × 4 13/16 in.)