Imaginary Landscape with Classical Ruins
date: label: Date
content: 1868–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing an imagined view of a dramatic, mountainous landscape with classical ruins. In the foreground, several standing figures face the view as they cast long shadows behind them. A figure riding a horse or donkey is visible at left, beneath a group of tall trees that partially block a view of the sun behind them. These trees also frame a view of a classical rotunda and several standing columns at center. In the middle distance at right, an arched bridge spans a river or lake, as mountains rise abruptly at right. In the background at upper right, an erupting volcano spewing smoke is visible across a range of shorter mountains below it. Some puffy clouds hang in the sky at upper right.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-723
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.6 × 17.4 cm (4 9/16 × 6 7/8 in.)