Clouds over an Alpine Valley
date: label: Date
content: June–September 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of clouds over a deep valley in the European Alps from an elevated perspective. In the foreground at left, a mountainside covered in conifer trees descends from center left to lower right, where the base of a rugged valley is visible in the middle distance. The valley extends to center right, until it is obscured by a dense, low bank of clouds that begins to break up at upper left. At upper right, the clouds catch the creamy, rosy tint of the light of the setting or rising sun.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
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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: 1917-4-1314
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27 × 32.6 cm (10 5/8 × 12 13/16 in.)