Buildings and a Cascade near Martigny, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 24, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of two buildings and a waterfall in or near Martigny, Switzerland. At upper center, a view of the Château de la Bâtiaz, with its tall, central, cylindrical stone tower surrounded by a lower wall, is shown perched atop a rugged prominence. A loose sketch of a small house built into a rocky cliffside situated at center, and distinguished from the other sketches by two horizontal dividing lines above and below it. At lower center and oppositely oriented, a small waterfall is loosely sketched.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a detailed view of a rugged mountain summit in the alps around Sion, Switzerland. The mountain dominates the view at center, with its sharp, craggy peaks rising into the sky. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered in trees, while in the background, another range of rugged mountains with sharp peaks is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Sion and Martigny, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Sion and Martigny, 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: 1917-4-1182
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21 × 12.1 cm (8 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)