Clouds over a City in Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 1868 - April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showng a view of the sunset of a city in Italy. Below, a hastily-rendered city skyline is visible. Various prominent rectangular structures are shown within the skyline. Above, a vibrant sky with varied clouds stretches over the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting behind a cloud, with two structures on the foreground at right. Rays of sunlight emanate from behind a cloud close to the horizon while the rest of the sky remains open.
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: 1917-4-1501
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.7 × 11.8 cm (3 7/16 × 4 5/8 in.)