Sketch of a Fresco from Pompeii
date: label: Date
content: April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketch of a fresco in Pompeii, Italy, depicting a group of tighly huddled classical Roman buildings surrounded by trees and other vegetation. In foreground, several loosely-rendered figures are visible. At right, a three-arched bridge spans a rushing cascade.
place: label: made in
content: Pompeii, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Pompeii, 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: 1917-4-1511
objectType: 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
label: Dimensions
content: 21.1 × 12 cm (8 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)