Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria
date: label: Date
content: June - August 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria. Prominently situated on the abrupt hill known as the Festungsberg, the sprawling fortress consists of several stacked layers of long buildings will turrets and tall, round towers. Immediately in front of the hill at right, the Nonnberg Abbey and its onion-shaped steeple are visible, with another, similar steeple visible in the distance at far right. Five tall trees are also visible around the base of the Festungsberg. In the background at left, the twin, pointed peaks of mountain known as Untersberg are faintly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch showing an oblique view of a large house with a tall chimney nestled in alpine mountainside. Small trees grown in front of the building at left, while steep, wooded mountain ridges steeply descend behind it. In the lower portion, an illustration of a body of water--possibly a stream of the shallows of a lake--is shown with numerous rocks breaking its surface. Two buildings on the opposite shoreline are visible at center and right.
place: label: made in
content: Salzburg, Austria
label: place depicted
content: Salzburg, Austria
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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: 1917-4-1061
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: 17.7 × 25.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)