Rooftops at Sunset from the Via Gregoriana, Rome
date: label: Date
content: October 1868–May 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view overlooking Rome at sunset from the upper stories of the apartment in which Church and his family stayed, on the Via Gregoriana beside the Bibliotheca Hertziana. In the foreground, apartment buildings across the street are shown in shade with their multiple slanting rooves. The taller buildings at left and right frame a view of storefronts on what is likely the Via della Vite, in the middle distance at center. From there, the rooftops of the city congeal into an indistinct, purple-brown mass that extends to the horizon, where a vivid sunset takes place. Horizontal bands of clouds catch the vibrant sunset light as it transitions from golden yellow, along the horizon, to pinkish red higher in the sky. Patches of dark blue twilight sky are visible at upper right and left.
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-b
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.2 × 38.1 cm (11 1/8 × 15 in.)