Basin of the Obersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: June 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 lake known as the Obersee near Berchtesgaden, present-day Germany, and the towering alps that surround it. At lower center, the still surface of the Obersee extends from the foreground and into the middle distance, bounded by heavily wooded shores. In the middle distance at left and right, steep, nearly vertical mountainsides frame a view of the Röthbachfall--a tall, narrow waterfall just south of the Obersee, here highlighted in white gouache at center. In the background, the serrated ridges of nearby alpine mountains are crowed in puffy clouds. The towering pinnacle-like peak at upper center is that of the Teufelshörner.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the lake known as the Königssee near Berchtesgaden, present-day Germany, and the towering mountains that surround it. At left, a heavily wooded and nearly vertical mountainside descends into the lake at lower center. At right, a similar steep ridge extends obliquely into the background, where three rounded peaks are visible.
place: label: made in
content: near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: near 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: 1917-4-566
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 brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.6 × 25.1 cm (6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.)