Unfinished View of a City
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unfinished landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of a city, likely in South America or the European Alps. In the foreground, a rocky stream extends obliquely into the middle distance and beneath a bridge with a pointed arch. A building's exterior wall frames the view at left, while at right, nearby buildings on the stream bank are visible, with the square belltower of church looming above all. It is constructed out of red and beige stone while other buildings have terra cotta roof tiles. Outside of a bank of pinkish clouds at center left, the sky above is clear and blue. Only the sky, the belltower, and the space under the bridge's arch are rendered in oil.
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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: 1917-4-1297
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on thin paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 31.8 × 42.4 cm (12 1/2 × 16 11/16 in.)