Alpine Views between Golling and Abtenau, Austria
date: label: Date
content: August 5, 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 three views of the alps between Golling and Abtenau, Austria, with two other sketches. A view looking obliquely down an extremely rugged range with craggy karst peaks--likely the Tennen Mountains (Tennengebirge)--is prominently featured at upper right. Below this view at center right, an abrupt mountain with a flat top is loosely sketched. At upper right, a young girl stands beside a trough supporting a bucket that appears to catch sap drawn from a tree trunk. A funnel is wedged into the tree and is spewing what is likely sap (however, this may also be a scene of a flowing well). Two small, young girls are sketched above and below the scene. Comprising the lower portion of the composition and oppositely oriented, is another view looking down a narrow river valley, with a sharp, serrated mountain range at right. Above it, a single, immense, pyramidal mountain is framed by wooded mountainsides. Finally, at lower right and oppositely oriented, a tower or church is loosely sketched.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketches showing three views of mountains between the towns of Golling and Abtenau in Austria. A view of a rugged, flat-topped peak and a mountain range behind it dominates the composition at upper center, while another, smaller sketch of two rocky mountains is included at upper right. At center left, a small and heavily wooded peak is shown among other rolling and receding ridges. A hiker with a backpack is included in the lower right corner of this sketch.
place: label: made in
content: near Golling, Austria
label: place depicted
content: near Golling, 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: 1917-4-959
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 light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 38.2 × 27.4 cm (15 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)