Landscape Sketches near Florence, Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Split landscape sketches showing two separate views of mountainous landscapes. At left, a cleft or narrow gorge is shown cutting through a rocky, sheer mountain range. At right, a stone bridge with four arches in the fourground stands beside a house and spans a wide river, while, in the background, a rocky, pyramidal peak looms over the landscape.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural sketches of the Loggia del Bigallo and the Pazzi Chapel in Florence, Italy. At center, the north-facing facade of the Loggia del Biggallo is shown, with its tall, arched opening below three portraits set within gothic niches. Below, and oppositely oriented, a fine sketch of the interior dome of the Pazzi Chapel is included.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Florence, 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: 1917-4-1470
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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 × 21 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)