Mountain Sketches
date: label: Date
content: August - September, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketches showing two views of mountains, separated by a diagonal line at center left. At left, a steep, wooded gorge between two mountains is visible. At right, a craggy, serrated mountain is visible in the distance, surrounded by clouds. Sloping, wooded hills comprise the foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing an unfinished view of rocky pinnacles at the peak of a mountain, with another ridge faintly rendered behind it.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland or Italy
label: place depicted
content: Switzerland or Italy
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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: 1917-4-873
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 21 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)