Mixed Sketches, Turkey
date: label: Date
content: June 2 and May 30, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches around Constantinople (now Istanbul) and the island of Tenedos in Turkey, showing a fortified castle at center, a bay window beneath a projecting wall, visible lower left, a sail boat at sea in front of a tall minaret at lower center, and shown at lower right, a sketch of a boat with three sails is included. The latter three sketches are oriented vertically.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view from sea of the city of Smyrna, now known as Izmir in Turkey, and the castle known as Kadifekale (or, "Velvet Castle") that looms over it. In middle distance, the buildings of the town are shown, with a town and a dome prominently visible at center. The bow of a docked boat faces the viewer at lower left. Above, the fortified walls of Kadifekale stretch across the crest of a steep prominence that backdrops the city known as Mount Pagos.
place: label: made in
content: Izmir, Tenedos, and Istanbul, Turkey
label: place depicted
content: Izmir, Tenedos, and Istanbul, Turkey
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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: 1917-4-871
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: 12.4 × 21.1 cm (4 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)