Buildings on a Hilltop, Italy
date: label: Date
content: February 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 city buildings on a hill in or near Rome, Italy. In foreground at right, the conical top of a tower is visible. In the middle distance at center, a large building with a tower--likely a church--stands upon a hill overlooking Rome, which spreads across rolling terrain to the horizon at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch of a street scene along the Via del Corso in Rome during Carnival. The street is viewed obliquely and rendered in one point perspective. The facades of the buildings on the left are visible as they extend down the street, while, at right, only the side of the nearest building in shown. The buildings are lavishly decorated with flags and banners that wave from the windows and balconies. Numerous figures walk through the street while others hang out of their windows.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Rome, 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: 1917-4-1502
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 × 12.1 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)