Castle in the Mountains
date: label: Date
content: 1868–69
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing an imagined view of a castle perched on a lofty prominence deep within a range of extremely rugged mountains. In the foreground at left, a dark and rocky cliffside frames the view of a seemingly bottomless crevice that snakes through the center of the composition. In the middle distance at right, a castle with a large, round turret is perched atop a rocky prominence with green, grassy surfaces. A stone bridge with two arches traverses a dramatically steep cascade. The tower catches the pinkish light of the setting or rising sun, which is out of view at left. In the middle distance at left and in the background, multiple craggy peaks with towering pinnacles are visible, illuminated pinkish red. In the background, a large mountain rises diagonally to a peak at upper right. The sky is a luminous hue of yellow-green.
place: label: made in
content: USA or Europe
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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: 1917-4-832
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 23.8 × 30.9 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)