Italian Farmhouse, Graphite Sketch

A pencil sketch of a two-story farmhouse with a sloping roof, dormer windows, and a wooden staircase climbing to a upper entrance. Loose graphite hatching defines the walls, shutters, and a stone-arched doorway on a plain tan paper ground.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

September 1868 - April 1869

Medium

Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2836 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum