Covered Wagon and Figure Sketches, 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: Sketches around Switzerland showing an elaborately shaded covered wagon viewed obliquely at left, a faint outline of a kneeling, lamenting figure at right, and two sketches of a figure leaning on their elbows with their head down, shown at lower right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch of a beareded prophet extending his hand and addressing two kneeling, female figures at left. All are adorned in draped robes. Likely a copy of a painting.
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: 1917-4-1484
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 13 × 20.2 cm (5 1/8 × 7 15/16 in.)