Rooftops, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: November 1868 - April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view overlooking buildings and roofs in Rome, Italy. Roofs and exterior walls are shown in the foreground at left and right, likely houses flanking the street shown in the middle distance at center. At right, a large figural statue rises above a house. It stands upon a globe, which itself is supported by a column capital. In the middle distance, the cityscape extends to a smoky and indefinite horizon. A blue sky shines above a red and yellow layer of haze that blankets the city.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketch in graphite of the statue and adjoining roofs shown on the recto.
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: 1917-4-611-a
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 18.1 x 25.7 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)