The Watzmann and Hochkalter from Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: July 9, 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 distant view of the peaks in the Bavarian Alps known as Watzmann and Hochkalter, from Berchtesgaden in present-day Germany. Across heavily wooded and rolling terrain the foreground and middle distance, the long slope of the Grünstein descends from upper left to center right, partially obscuring the view of the Watzmann, whose sharp peaks loom behind it at left. In the background at right, Hochkalter is partly veiled by a misty, cloud atmosphere, though its rugged contour still remains visible. Mist hangs throughout the scene.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Germany
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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: 1917-4-553-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
label: Dimensions
content: 30 × 44.2 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)