Alpine View from Belalp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: September 1, 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 the Swiss Alps (Pennine and Bernese) from near the hamlet of Belalp, Switzerland. In the middle distance, rugged mountain ridges descend from a horn-like peak at upper left to a declivity at center. These ridges and features are loosely rendered. In the background at right, several sharp, alpine peaks are visible along an immense range--possibly a portion of the Pennine Alps, looking across the Rhone Valley from Belalp. Several snow fields and glaciers are visible among these serrated peaks, which then melt down the mountainsides in serpentine rivulets that gather in the valley floor below.
place: label: made in
content: Belalp, 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: 1917-4-936-b
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, brush and white gouache on beige wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.4 × 44.1 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)