Sketches of a Hilltop Town, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1868–69
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketches showing three stacked views of a town on a hill in the Italian countryside. In the upper portion, bluffs topped with several trees are loosely rendered. In the middle section, a distant town on a prominence is shown within an otherwise expansive and rolling wooded landscape. In lower portion and oppositely oriented, a closer view of the town is shown, with one prominent tower.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed architectural and landscape sketches showing views of vine-covered ruins at upper right, a castle on a hill at left, a mill building at lower left and oriented to the left, and, at lower right and oriented to the right, a view of a road beside stones and trees is shown.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1467
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: 21.4 × 11.9 cm (8 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.)