Old Town of Visp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of closely-grouped buildings in the Old Town of Visp, Switzerland. At left, the pointed spire of Dreikönigskirche is visible, while at right, the belltower and rectangular basilica of St. Martin's Catholic Church are shown. A prominent building with a stepped gable at center is surrounded by several other multi-storied buildings. In the background, overlapping mountain ridges of the Bernese Alps are rendered as outlines.
place: label: made in
content: Visp, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Visp, 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: 1917-4-1191
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 20.7 cm (4 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)