Mountains by the Königssee, 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 sketch showing the Königssee is Bavaria, Germany and its precipitous mountain shoreline. Placid water of the lake is visible in foreground extends to a steep mountain ridge on the shore. These sheer cliffs and prominences dominate the composition at center. At center, a wooded ridge is rendered in darker graphite.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a view of the lake known as the Hintersee in Bavaria, Germany, with steep mountainsides along its shore. In middle distance, a wooded, diagonal slope is visible, with a more rugged, cliff-strewn mountain range in the background.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-496-c
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 blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)