Mountain Peaks and Wayside Shrine
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: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain ridge with rocky outcroppings and sheer cliffs along its crest. At lower left, a wayside shrine is hastily rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a view in Austria, Germany, or Switzerland of a castle built on a hill in a dramatic mountain valley through which a river runs. Steep, loosely-rendered mountainsides frame the scene in the foreground on either side. At center, the towers of a castle are visible upon a hill in the middle distance. A river winds its way through the wooded floor of the valley. In background, walls of massive, serrated mountain ranges envelope the scene.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
label: possibly made in
content: Germany, Austria, 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: 1917-4-1463
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 wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.9 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)