Alpine Houses and Rocks, Switzerland
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: Architecture and landscape sketches showing an oblique view of two stucco houses with slate roofs, two chimneys, and an exterior stairway, at left. At lower right, loose sketches of rocks and ledges are included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing tall, sharp, snow-capped peaks along a mountain range that extends horizontally across the composition. With the wooded summits of nearby hills visible in the foreground, the mountain range is viewed from the opposite side of a valley, likely the Rhone Valley. In the middle distance, hazy clouds and possibly smoke hangs in the atmosphere, obfuscating the view of the range.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-905
objectType: 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 and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 20.6 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)