Wayside Shrine near Abtenau, Austria
date: label: Date
content: August 5, 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 a view of a wayside shrine in the mountainous landscape between the towns of Golling and Abtenau in Austria. Viewed obliquely in the immediate foreground at right, the shrine is topped with a rounded cross and decorated with a crossed-key motif. In the background at left, a rugged, rocky ridge is shown through a break in nearby, wooded mountainsides. The slope at right is extremely steep.
place: label: made in
content: near Abtenau, Austria
label: place depicted
content: near Abtenau, 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: 1917-4-689-b
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 and white gouache on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.2 × 27.2 cm (7 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)