Interior Courtyard, Italy
date: label: Date
content: October 1868 - April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketch showing a view of a colonnade and fountain in an interior courtyard in Italy. At center left, an engaged ionic column forms part of the pillar that supports two arches, though which two windows are visible. The sky is shown through the left window while a yellow glow emanates through the right. In the foreground at right, a fountain is shown.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch of a mixed cloudy sky in Italy. In upper portion, hazy clouds are shown above bands of puffy clouds visible at center. Along the lower margin, a landscape with a lone building is rendered extremely loosely.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1503
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: 11.8 × 8.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)