St. Gilgen by the Wolfgangsee, Austria
date: label: Date
content: August 8, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose landscape sketch showing an elevated view of the Austrian town of St. Gilgen on the western shore of the Wolfgangsee and the craggy, towering alps that surround it. In the foreground at right, the waters of the Wolfgangsee are shown. At left, a sheer mountainside is visible, leading to a wooded slope and curving shoreline below, in the middle distance at center. The town of St. Gilgen is situated along the lake's shore at right with the steeple of the Parish Church of Saint Egidius prominently visible. Beyond the town, the broad expanse of alpine valley is shown with another lake in the distance. In the background, a craggy mountain range forms a forms a serrated horizon.
place: label: place depicted
content: St. Gilgen, Austria
label: made in
content: near St. Gilgen, 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: 1917-4-503-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 on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.5 × 24.6 cm (7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.)