Thunderstorm over the Alps
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: Landscape sketch showing a view of heavy rain falling over the craggy, pyramidal peaks of an alpine mountain range, at left, which flatten out to a wooded valley floor at center and right. Rain articulated as striations in the sky. In the foreground at right, a small wayside shrine is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmospheric sketches showing views of a cloud-filled sky above a flat, wooded landscape, at left, and at right, the dazzlig orb of the sun suspended in a clear sky. At lower right, a vignette of a mountainside illuminted by the sun is loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Germany, Austria, or 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: 1917-4-1105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/2 in.)