Shore of the Königssee and a Canoe, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: July 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketches showing a view of steep mountainsides along the Königssee in Bavaria--with a dark, rolling range in the background--and, below, a separate drawing of three figures in a long canoe is opposite oriented and viewed in right profile.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and botanical sketches showing two separate views of mountainsides on the Königssee and the branches of a larch tree, divided by a horizontal line at center. In the upper portion, a rocky, partially wooded, and nearly vertical mountainside along the shore of the lake is loosely rendered. Below and oppositely oriented, sketches of a larch tree and seven details of its branches are included.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Germany
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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: 1917-4-548
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 tan laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 20.4 × 12.1 cm (8 1/16 × 4 3/4 in.)