Landscape with Castle
date: label: Date
content: 1870–75
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 landscape with a medieval castle and a cottage, derived from the artist's view of Château de la Bâtiaz in Martigny, Switzerland. In the foreground, a river flows horizontally across the composition, with the nearby grassy bank visible in the lower left corner. Across the river at right, a small cottage with a thatch roof is illuminated in a patch of light beside several trees. Smoke rises from its chimney. Looming above it in the middle distance at upper left is a medieval castle with a tall, circular tower that is perched atop a lofty and abrupt hill. Dark storm clouds gather over the castle and partly veil a red-orange lightning bolt that zigzags through them. In the background at right, pink sunset clouds are visible in an otherwise open sky above a rolling mountain range.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: Martigny, Switzerland
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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: 1917-4-345
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, pencil on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27.7 × 35.8 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/8 in.)