The Column of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
date: label: Date
content: October 1868–May 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view overlooking Rome from the Via Gregoriana, prominently featuring the Column of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter's Basilica. The Column of the Immaculate Conception--a tall Corinthian column topped with a bronze statue of the Virgin Mary in the Piazza Mignanelli, near the Spanish Steps--is prominently visible in the foreground at center. Other buildings in the foreground at left and right are loosely rendered. Brownish-purple rooftops extend across the middle distance until they reach the immense dome of St. Peter's Basilica, which looms in the background at center. A long bank of clouds hangs just above the horizon and block the setting sun, which backlights the cloud with a luminous golden glow that transitions to a deep blue in the upper corners.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Rome, 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: 1917-4-610-b
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.1 × 38.6 cm (11 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)