Valley of the Wolfgangsee, St. Gilgen, Austria
date: label: Date
content: August 8, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose landscape sketch showing a view of the wide, fertile valley surrounding the town of St. Gilgen, Austria, and the nearby lake known as the Wolfgangsee. The town's buildings are visible along the shore at right. Valley is encircled by sharp, alpine mountain ranges. In the lower left corner and oppositely oriented, a sketch of the front of a house or shed is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketches around St. Gilgen, Austria, showing, in the upper half, a view of a village with a prominent church on the shores of the lake known as the Wolfgangsee, surrounded by serrated mountains. In the lower half and oppositely oriented, an oblique view of that church is shown with a figure sketch of a man driving a hay cart, viewed from behind.
place: label: made in
content: St. Gilgen, Austria
label: place depicted
content: St. Gilgen, Austria
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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: 1917-4-1483
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 wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 21.3 cm (4 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.)