Aletsch Glacier by Moonlight, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 28, 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 curving Aletsch Glacier in the Bernese Alps near Belalp, Switzerland. In the foreground, a rounded mountainside descends to the right and is part of the range that hems-in the glacier the glacier at left. At center, the glacier, with its alternating dark and light streaks, creates an S-curve through the alpine valley. In the middle distance and background at left, snow covers rugged mountaintops while the dark night sky is loosely suggest above and beyond.
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: 1917-4-499-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 and white gouache on light brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.8 × 30.1 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/8 in.)