Waterfall between Vevey and Sion, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 24, 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 a waterfall in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland. The water cascades in a vertical line down the sheer valley wall. A precipitous cliff is visible at right and arched stone bridge spans the stream at the base of the waterfall, at lower left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch showing an oblique view of the Rhone Valley in Switzerland. In the foreground, a wooded hillside descends from left to right. In the middle distance, a craggy, serrated ridge is visible with three prominent peaks.
place: label: place depicted
content: Switzerland
label: made in
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: 1917-4-163
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: Sheet: 12 x 8.6 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)