Gnarled Tree and Weed, Obersee, Germany
date: label: Date
content: July 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing, at center, a gnarled, knotty tree and its lower boughs growing among moss-covered stones. Below, a light sketch of a small plant is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch showing a view of the Obersee in Bavara, Germany, and the nearby terrain. At center, a dense grove of trees is visible, framed by the sharp peaks of distant mountains in the background. Red clouds hang in the sky above. The trees, mountains, and sky are reflected in the placid waters of the lake below.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.2 × 12 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/4 in.)