Summit with Billowing Clouds
date: label: Date
content: August - September, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmospheric sketch showing a view of large, billowing cumulonimbus clouds behind a wooded mountain peak, darkened by shadow. Partly rendered in white gouache, the clouds are backlit by the sun. Along the right margin and oppositely oriented, a vignette of backlit clouds, through which the sun is faintly visible, is shown.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the moon illuminating mountain peaks in the Swiss alps. At right, a tall, sharp, and rocky peak is the highest point on a serrated ridge that extends horizontally across the composition. At center, a full moon is visible behind hazy clouds.
place: label: made in
content: Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Germany, Austria, or 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: 1917-4-922
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 tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 20.9 cm (4 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)