Mountains above the Königssee, Germany
date: label: Date
content: July 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 view of the imposing, rocky mountains that loom above the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. Placid water of the lake is visible in foreground, and meets the steep shoreline in the middle distance. Rugged mountain peaks are visible along a ridge near the upper margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing an oblique view of steep mountainsides descending into the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. The water's edge is visible near the lower margin, where a detail of possibly a latticed window is also shown. A prominent, pyramidal peak is visible at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, 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: 1917-4-555
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 tan laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 20.8 × 12.3 cm (8 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.)