Imaginary Coastal Landscape with 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 coastal landscape with a tower. In the foreground, a dark, backlit tree grows out of a steep slope with other foliage visible along the left margin. It frames a view of a square tower, seemingly positioned on a cliff or prominence in the middle distance at right, and the open sea beyond. In the background at center, a backlit cloud bifurcates the sun's light into distinct beams that fall upon the tower, which has one dark, square window.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch showing a view of a summer sunset over the Catskills, viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The shaded Catskill Escarpment forms a rugged horizon the stretches across the composition, topped with layers of hazy and puffy clouds.
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: 1917-4-535
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 dark brown ink on off-white laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 9.9 × 11.4 cm (3 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.)