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Drawing, Clouds over Rome, Italy

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated February 1869 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

12 × 21.1 cm (4 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower left, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: 2 / 3; in graphite, upper right: Rome Feb /69; in graphite, center: 4 4 / blood red; in graphite, lower center: dusk yellow green luminous / Darker than 2 - red; in graphite, lower right: 2 - grey brown / fading into 3 - pinky / open sky pale milky / opal blue; in graphite, verso center: 4 / 2 3; in graphite, verso lower center: 2 window reflecting rich sky (orange) / 3 - sky delicate greenish blue with / faint warm streaks / 4 - End of building faint pinky

Cite this object as

Drawing, Clouds over Rome, Italy; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite; 12 × 21.1 cm (4 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-695

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