Coastline near Foggia, Italy
date: label: Date
content: April 28, 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 a view of the sea and the distant eastern Italian coastline near the city of Foggia. In the foreground, a nearby shore is relatively featureless. Waters of the sea stretch stretch through the middle distance into the background, where they encounter the rugged coastline. Details of flowers are included at upper left:
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the outline of a distant, mountain range with snow-capped peaks in Italy or Greece. Viewed across a body of water, these are rugged coastal mountains. A shoreline is faintly suggested at left.
place: label: made in
content: Foggia, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Foggia, 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: 1917-4-1116
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 laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.3 cm (4 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)