View of Monte Rosa from Macugnaga, Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 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 mountain known as Monte Rosa from the small town of Macugnaga in the Valley of the Anza River in Italy. In the foreground, a timber building and a stone church--likely the Parrocchia di Macugnaga--are visible atop a lightly wooded prominence at lower right. Beyond them in the middle distance, a heavily wooded hillside descends diagonally across the composition from upper left to lower right, partially obscure the view of the distant mountain range. In the background at upper left, the three sharp, rocky peaks of Monte Rosa are veiled in clouds, while two shorter peaks at upper right are covered in snow. A large glacier is visible in the saddle below and between the peaks. Above, puffy clouds hang in an otherwise deep blue sky.
place: label: made in
content: Macugnaga, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Macugnaga, 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: 1917-4-568-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 23.7 × 32.6 cm (9 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)