View from the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland, Part One
date: label: Date
content: August 27, 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 the first part of a panoramic view of the Pennine and Bernese Alps from the surface of the Aletsch Glacier near Belalp in Switzerland. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-464-b. Long piles of rocks and soil known as medial moraines are visible in the immediate foreground, with two rugged piles at left and right. The serrated surface of the glacier, highlighted in white gouache, extends from the foreground to the middle distance and is bounded at left and right by steep and heavily wooded mountainsides that ascend to the left and right corners. At upper right, a small alpine cabin is perched upon the ridge. In the background at center, three monumental, snow-capped mountains are prominently visible: the Dom at left, the Matterhorn at center, and the Weisshorn at right. They are viewed across several other mountainsides and ridges.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-464-a
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 beige wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 44.1 cm (11 7/8 × 17 3/8 in.)