The Valère from Tourbillon Castle, Sion, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 25-26, 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 sketch showing a view of Valère Basilica in Sion, Switzerland, from the neighboring hill with Tourbillon Castle. In the foreground, the nearby rugged hillside is visible at lower right and descends abruptly to the base of another hill that hosts the Valère Basilica in the middle distance at center. The sprawling, multi-level complex of the Valère crowns the hill, with its immense walls and soaring belltower. In the background, the Rhone River, highlighted in white gouache, snakes its way through the valley floor, bounded by the bulging and rocky Pennine Alps at left, and the Bernese Alps at right.
place: label: made in
content: Sion, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Sion, 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: 1917-4-1474
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 wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 38.2 cm (10 3/4 × 15 1/16 in.)