Rainbows in a Thunderstorm, Part One
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 double rainbow over a flat plain near the alps in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. The flat, featureless plain is visible in the foreground, out of which two rainbows arch to the left. In the background, sharp mountain ridges stretch across the composition.
label: Description
content: Verso: A continuation of the recto scene, this landscape sketch features a view of a bolt of lightning, at left, amid heavy rain and dark storm clouds visible upper right. A dark, shaded church is hastily rendered in the lower right corner.
place: label: made in
content: Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-1106
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: 12.2 × 21.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 9/16 in.)