Architecture Sketches and Woman Carrying Basket, Switzerland
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: Architecture and figure sketches showing, in the upper half, a frontal view of a house surrounded by vegetation and whose basement is covered in vines, and in the lower half and oppositely oriented, a woman carrying groceries and the facade of a church with a steeple are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the jagged peaks of the Swiss alps near Hotel Belalp. A steep, grassy slope frames the scene at left. In middle distance, the serrated crest of a neraby mountain is shown, with its dramatic ridge extending to the background.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)