Ponte Romano and Alpine View near Ceppo Morelli, Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 11, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketches showing views of the Ponte Romano bridge and a view of a glacier and valley near Monte Rosa, Italy. At left and oriented to the left, the single arch of the stone Ponte Romano near Ceppo Morelli spans the Anza River and features a cross at its apex. A small wayside structure is visible beside it at left. At right, a view overlooking a mountain valley with a glacier in the Pennine Alps near Monte Rosa is shown. Slopes at left and right frame a view of the glacier, at left, a snowy mountain at center, and a narrow valley at right.
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a narrow, wooded mountain valley near the village of Macugnaga, Italy, in the Pennine Alps. In foreground at right, a cluster of small buildings is visible. Behind them, the valley floor rises to meet another structure, in the middle distance at center. At right, a mountain range extends obliquely from the middle distance into the background.
place: label: place depicted
content: Macugnaga, Piedmont, Italy
label: made in
content: Macugnaga, Piedmont, 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: 1917-4-872
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)