Rocky Peak above Pines and a Rowboat
date: label: Date
content: August 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch of a tall, pyramidal, and rounded granite mountain in the European alps. In the foreground, loosely-rendered conifer trees frame a view of the mountain in the distance at center. Oppositely oriented along the lower margin, a sketch of a figure sitting in a rowboat on a rocky shore is also included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketches showing two stacked views of rugged mountain peaks in the European alps. In the upper half, two craggy peaks are viewed obliquely above a steep, wooded hillside. In the lower half, a view of distant jagged peaks is framed by a wooded slope in the foreground at left.
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: 1917-4-1118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21.1 × 12.4 cm (8 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.)