View of Salzburg, Austria
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of the city of Salzburg in Austria. A greenish-yellow field extends across the foreground at center, leading to the Salzburg Christuskirche and its red spire, partially rendered and visible along the right margin. Multiple buildings are nestled in the middle distance among lush trees, three of which are churches, visible at center left. From left to right, the churches are the Salzburg Cathedral (with a large dome and two spires), St. Peter's Abbey (with two closely positioned spires), and the Kollegienkirche (the lowest one with a dome, at right). Behind them, the low, rambling hill that runs through the middle of Salzburg, known as the Mönchsberg, stretches across the middle distance. At far right, a building is shown nestled in woods along the hill ridge--possibly the Schloss Mönchstein. At far left, Hohensalzburg Fortress and its white walls and turrets are prominently visible atop the mountain known as Festungsberg. In the background, immense peaks of the Bavarian and Austrian Alps form a rugged horizon beneath an open sky with sparse, puffy clouds. At right, Untersberg looms over the scene, while in the background at center, Hoher Göll is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Salzburg, Austria
label: place depicted
content: Salzburg, Austria
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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: 1917-4-303-b
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32.5 × 50.9 cm (12 13/16 × 20 1/16 in.)