Italian Farmhouse
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: Architectural sketch showing an oblique view of a rustic, Italian farmhouse. A staircase of eight steps leads to an elevated front porch. Roof is madeup of shingled tiles with a chimney at left. Window also shown at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered atmospheric sketch showing a view of a vibrant and varied sunset sky. Layers of differently-textured and -colored clouds overlay one another in a nearly abstracted view of the sky.
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: 1917-4-1500
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: 8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)