Albornoz Fortress, Narni, Italy
date: label: Date
content: October 1, 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 multiple views of a castle in the mountains terrain near Terni, Italy. In the upper portion, a view of a barren prominence surmounted by a faintly visible castle is shown. In the middle register, that same castle is viewed more closely, with one prominent rectilinear tower rising above the others. Below, a loose sketch of two trees is also included. Along the lower margin and oppositely oriented, another sketch of the same castle is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Multiple architectural sketches in or around Terni, Italy, showing four views of buildings with arched windows at center, two elaborate chimneys along upper margin, along along lower margin and oppositely oriented, a sprawling castle on a hill is loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Turin, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Turin, 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: 1917-4-1285
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan laid paper; verso; graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 11.9 cm (8 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.)