Alpine Landscape
date: label: Date
content: June–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 mountains and lakes somewhere in the European Alps, likely in Austria or Bavaria. In the foreground, at heavily wooded slope is loosely rendered at lower right. In the middle distance at left, multiple steep mountain ridges descend toward the center of the composition, where two narrow lakes are nestled in a narrow valley. A house is visible on the spit of land between them. At right, multiple other heavily wooded mountainsides overlap as they recede into the distance. At upper left, a sharp summit in the background peeks over a rugged ridge. In the background at center right, a dark range forms a serrated horizon.
place: label: probably made in
content: Germany or Austria
label: place probably depicted
content: Germany or Austria
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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: 1917-4-565
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, brush and white gouache on light blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.3 × 44.1 cm (11 15/16 × 17 3/8 in.)