Great Aletsch Glacier, 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 study showing a view of the Great Aletsch Glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Viewed from an elevated perspective, the glacier curves through an alpine valley from lower right to upper center. In the immediate foreground at left and center, nearby hillsides and treetops are visible. In the distance at left, the serrated peaks of Aletschhorn are shown bathed in pinkish sunlight, while other jagged mountains form the horizon at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Switzerland
label: made in
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: 1917-4-361-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 42.8 cm (11 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.)