Morning Mist over Berchtesgaden, Germany, Part One
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 morning mist rising of the town of Berchtesgaden, Germany. In the foreground, a wooded landscape with one structure leads to a middle distance veiled by mist, which rises upward to the right. In the background, the sharp, snow-capped, twin peaks of the Watzmann loom over the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a continuation of the scene on the recto. Rising mist obfuscates the wooded, rolling landscape immediately around Berchtesgaden in the foreground and middle distance. In the background, the sharp peaks of the Bavarian alps rise over the scene. A standing figure is also shown at upper right and oppositely oriented.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Berchtesgaden, 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: 1917-4-561
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 wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.1 cm (4 13/16 × 8 5/16 in.)