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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, View of the Sorrento Peninsula and Capri, Italy

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April 1869 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on light green wove paper. 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

10.6 × 30 cm (4 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: [arrow pointing up to the right] west; in graphite, center left: yellow; in graphite, center: green & brown; in graphite, center right: Capri faint

Cite this object as

Drawing, View of the Sorrento Peninsula and Capri, Italy; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on light green wove paper; 10.6 × 30 cm (4 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-924

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