View of the Bernese Alps from Belalp, Switzerland, Part One
date: label: Date
content: September 1, 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 Bernese Alps from near Belalp, Switzerland. In the foreground at left, the craggy mountain ridge upon which the artist is situated, partly frames the view at left. In the middle distance at right, a rocky ridge descends in an arch toward the lower left corner. Beyond it, similarly rugged mountain ridges overlap one another as they recede into the background, where numerous sharp and snow-capped peaks form a serrated horizon. The slender, pointed summit of the Matterhorn peeks above the other mountains in the background at upper center.
place: label: place depicted
content: Switzerland
label: made in
content: Belalp, 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: 1917-4-269-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, brush and white gouache on gray-blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.2 × 30.1 cm (17 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.)