Saint Aegidius by 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 overlooking a view of the Church of Saint Aegidius on the shores of the Wolfgangsee in St. Gilgen, Austria. A hillside in the foreground slopes down to the church and the lake in the middle distance, while massive, rugged alpine mountains envelope the basin in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of a castle on the shores of the Wolfgangsee near St. Gilgen, Austria. At right, the precipitous slope of the nearby mountainside is visible, descending to the large castle with a rectilinear tower on the shoreline. The sheer mountainside ascends out of the frame at upper right. At upper left, a sketch of a bull's head is shown in profile, and possibly a small architectural detail is visible at lower left.
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: 1917-4-1461
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tane wove paper; verso; graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.6 × 20.9 cm (4 15/16 × 8 1/4 in.)