# Italian Farmhouse

**Frederic Edwin Church** (American, 1826–1900)  
September 1868 - April 1869  
Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite  
8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1917-4-1500. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22599).

## About this work

Architectural sketch showing an oblique view of a rustic, Italian farmhouse. A staircase of eight steps leads to an elevated front porch. Roof is madeup of shingled tiles with a chimney at left. Window also shown at left.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Frederic Edwin Church drew this (September 1868 - April 1869), aged about 42. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### How it was made

- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.

### [Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-edwin-church)

American, 1826–1900; born in Hartford, Connecticut; died in New York

Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He travelled to South America, the Arctic, Europe and the Near East in search of grand subjects, and pictures such as Heart of the Andes drew paying crowds when exhibited on their own in New York. Twilight in the Wilderness of 1860 is among his most admired American views. He later designed his own house, Olana, overlooking the Hudson River.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was about 42
- Real size: about 3½ × 5 in (9 × 12 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Hudson River School](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/hudson-river-school)
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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