View from Belalp, Switzerland, Part Two
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 the second part of a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps from the hamlet of Bel Alp. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-892-a. A rough, rocky outcropping is visible in the foreground at lower right, while an extremely rugged ridge in the middle distance at left descends toward the center of the composition. Beyond it, at center, a large, bulging mountain ridge is prominently visible. In the background at left, the Aletsch Glacier snakes through a rugged valley bounded by serrated peaks--its dark medial moraines plainly visible. In the background at right, the sharp, snow-capped summits of the Pennine Alps stretch across the horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the unfinished third part of a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps from the hamlet of Bel Alp. Intended as the final component of a three-part panorama, with 1917-4-892-a and 1917-4-892-b recto, this composition only includes a fraction of a view, which doesn't easily align with the previous two parts. Situated at upper center, a serrated range of snow-capped peaks is visible beyond a loosely rendered and heavily wooded mountaintop nearby.
place: label: made in
content: Belalp, Switzerland
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-892-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, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: Graphite, brush and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 27.2 cm (11 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)