Bluffs on a Riverbank near Terni, Italy
date: label: Date
content: October 1868 and April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of wooded bluffs along a river near Terni, Italy. In the middle distance at center, an abrupt bluff is surmounted by a grove of trees and possibly a structure. In the background at left, the curving bluffs are again visible. At left, the water of a river is shown.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical and field sketches from Paestum and Pompeii, Italy, respectively. Above, a sketch of an ancient Roman galley manned by numerous soldiers is shown, copied from a fresco in Pompeii. Below, seven sketches of briers, thistles, and trees from around Paestum are included.
place: label: place depicted
content: Pompeii, Paestum, and Terni, Italy
label: made in
content: Pompeii, Paestum, and Terni, 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: 1917-4-1264
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-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.3 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)