Falls at 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: Faint landscape sketch showing a view of a waterfall and mountains looming over the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. Large, rounded peaks are visible in upper portion of composition, leading down to a lightly rendered cascade at center. Steep, wooded mountainsides nearby descend to the placid waters of the lake, visible in the foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of the Königssee's mountainous shoreline, viewed from the lake itself. At center, the rugged, abrupt, and wooded shoreline is reflected in the lake's waters below. Along the lower margin, a sketch of reeds or grass is visible.
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: 1917-4-496-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: Graphite on blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 20.9 × 12.2 cm (8 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)