Rooftops, Rome, Italy by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) The printing credit to a

The printing credit to a Lausanne workshop situates the piece squarely within the dynamic Swiss graphic tradition that flourished as railways expanded and tourism boomed

and identity during World War I

a seventeenth-century masterpiece of Mughal architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The luminous blue sky

owning this piece is akin to possessing a fragment of Audubon’s magnificent legacy of documenting wildlife

Rooftops, Rome, Italy by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) The printing credit to aRooftops, Rome, Italy (186869) by Frederic Edwin Church captures an unexpected, intimate view of the Eternal City at the height of the artists mature career. Best known as a leading light of the Hudson River School, Church was celebrated for his luminous atmospheres and carefully observed detail. Here, instead of a grand panorama, he narrows his gaze to a mosaic of terracotta tiles and sun warmed walls, translating Romes everyday architecture into an