Alpine Architecture Sketches
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: Architectural sketches showing four views of buildings and structures in the alps of Austria or Switzerland. At upper left, a house with a chimney is loosely rendered, while, below it, a stone bridge arches over a mountain stream. At lower center, the round tower and exterior walls of a castle are visible. Along lower margin and oppositely oriented, a view of a stately building with an arched colonnade and a cupola is also included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketches showing, along the upper margin, a large building upon a hill, at center, a rugged and loosely-rendered mountain valley, and at lower right and oppositely oriented, a portion of a house is loosely sketched.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland or Austria
label: place depicted
content: Switzerland or 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: 1917-4-1464
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 laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21 × 12.1 cm (8 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)