Tinted Mountain near 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 of a sharp, pyramidal mountain in the Swiss alps near the town of Visp, Switzerland. A steep, wooded mountainside at left descends to center. At upper center, the pointed peak of the central mountain is visible--the highest point of a nearby range.
label: Description
content: Verso: Two vertically and oppositely oriented landscape sketches around Valais, Switzerland, divided by a line down the middle. In upper half, a house is shown on a rocky ledge overlooking a gorge with a tall waterfall. In lower half and oppositely oriented, a view through a crux in mountain ridges is shown. Mountain slopes at left and right creat a "V" through which lightning and a thunderstorm over a mountainous landscape 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: 1917-4-1181
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 laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.4 cm (4 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)