Alpine Glacier
date: label: Date
content: June - September, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of a glacier beneath a rocky, serrated peak, likely in the Bavarian or Bernese Alps. Grassy, rolling hillsides stretch across the foreground and lead to a steep, rocky mountainside in the middle distance at left. At center, the blue and white ridges of a glacier are visible below the sharp, jagged peaks of a nearby mountain. Above, the cloudless sky is rendered in a shade of rich, royal blue.
label: Description
content: Verso: Fern branches and leaves blotted and silhouetted in green.
place: label: made in
content: Germany or Switzerland
label: made in
content: Germany 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: 1917-4-670-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: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: oil or green ink
label: Dimensions
content: 21.8 × 32.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.)