River and Mountain Peaks, Berchtesgaden, 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: Landscape sketches showing views of a distant, snow-capped mountain, visible between two ridges at right, and at left, a curving river with a wooded bank shown from an elevated perspective. Another faint outline of a mountain ridge is visible at lower right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Vertical landscape sketch showing the sheer cliffs along the shores of the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. At right, a vertical rock face is reflected in the waters of the lake below. At left, precipitous and layered mountains extend obliquely into the background. Two sharp peaks are visible at center.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Berchtesgaden, 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: 1917-4-564
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 and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)