Rhone Valley between Sion and Visp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 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 Rhone Valley in the region of Switzerland known as Valais. River in foreground at right winds its way into and through the valley. Steep mountain slopes hem in the valley on either side and extend toward the horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches around the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, showing views of a tower and a building with an arched colonnade in upper portion, a town nestled in a river valley with tall cliffs, at center, and in the lower portion and oppositely oriented, the facade of a large building and a seated figure by a cart are shown.
place: label: made in
content: Valais, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Valais, Switzerland
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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: 1917-4-1198
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 20.8 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/16 in.)