Buildings and Towers
date: label: Date
content: June–September 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketches showing three views of buildings in Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland. At upper left, the exterior of a church's apse is visible beside a large chalet with a balcony building upon a cliff with loosely rendered foliage. At lower left and oppositely oriented, a building's pyramidal, pointed roof is shown with two smaller auxiliary towers and a flagpole beside it.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and landscape sketches showing two views of buildings and hilly terrain somewhere in Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland. A wooded slope gently descends from right to left along the upper margin, with more rolling terrain visible in the distance. At lower left and oriented to the left, a cylindrical tower with a conical roof is visible. At lower right, a chimney is loosely sketched from an oblique perspective.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
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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: 1917-4-1485
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 8.7 cm (4 13/16 × 3 7/16 in.)