Castle by Moonlight
date: label: Date
content: 1850–60
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing an imagined view of a medieval turret in a rugged and wooded landscape at night. The cylindrical turret stands atop a short prominence at left, while an arched, elevated walkway extends out of view at left. At right, a pair of trees are shown atop another nearby prominence. In the background, the moon's luminous light is visible at the base of the turret, illuminating clouds in the sky with a silver edge. Such scenes were surely inspired by the artist's teacher, Thomas Cole.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a faint view of clouds at sunrise. Multiple layered bands of puffy and wispy clouds inhabit the sky and, according to the artist's inscriptions, and range in color from purple to orange and yellow.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-545
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, white crayon on brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 7/16 × 7 7/16 in.)