View of the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany), Part One
date: label: Date
content: June 26, 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 the first part of a panoramic view of the alps and rolling, wooded terrain around Berchtesgaden in Bavaria (present-day Germany). This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-956-b. Viewed from an elevated perspective, the scene includes several buildings and groves of trees in the foreground, particularly a church with a steeple at left and a shrine nearby at lower right. In the middle distance at center, a small, rounded hill is shown covered in trees. A group of buildings are situated just beyond it at right. At right, the foremost pointed and heavily wooded mountain is known as Grünstein, while the twin pinnacle peaks of the Watzmann tower behind it, partially covered in snow. Moving left along the rugged horizon, the Schönfeldspitze is visible in the extreme distance at center, while the Jenner's pyramidal peak rises at left, around several other craggy mountains.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germnay
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Germany
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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: 1917-4-956-a
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 gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30 × 44.2 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)