View of Monte Rosa near Macugnaga, Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 11, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketches predominantly showing a view of the mountain known as Monte Rosa in the Pennine Alps from the nearby village of Macugnaga, Italy. In the foreground at center, a river winds its way through a narrow, wooded mountain valley whose slopes form a 'V' that frames a view of the towering, snow-capped mountain in the distance at center. Above, bright, puffy clouds hang in the sky. At right and oriented to the right, a rough sketch of a long building is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketches predominantly showing a view of water cascading down a narrow cleft in a rocky mountainside in the Pennine Alps of Italy. Above, serrated peaks of the nearby ridge are faintly visible, leading down to a notch in the rockface that directs the water down a narrow, curving rivulet. At upper right and oriented to the right, a woman is shown carrying a large basket full of laundry on her back.
place: label: made in
content: Macugnaga, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Macugnaga, Italy
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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: 1917-4-1303
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 20.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)