Swiss Chalet and Mixed Sketches, 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: Architecture sketches, likely from Switzerland, showing two stacked views of an alpine chalet. Above, the side of the structure is shown with various objects leaning against its exterior wall, including a ladder and a pile of wood. Below, a corner of the building is viewed obliquely, allowing the chimney, slate roof, and facade balcony to be seen. Between these two drawings, multiple small vignettes of ducks on the water, a partial house facade, and the face of a man smoking a pipe are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectue sketches showing views of a mausoleum above and a church with other structures below, and oppositely oriented. At upper center, a mausoleum with a tile or slate roof and trellis window is obliquely shown in a general state of decay. At lower center, and oppositely oriented, a church's steeple is visible in front of a cabin or mine on a rock-strewn slope.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1480
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 20.7 × 12.3 cm (8 1/8 × 4 13/16 in.)