Cloudy Sky and Chalet, Austria
date: label: Date
content: August 1, 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 stacked views of a cloud-filled sky over a mountainous landscape, above, and below and oppositely oriented, an ornate, three-storied alpine chalet in Austria. The house is made of brick, wood, and slate and a detail of a window is included beside it.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural sketches showing partial and complete views of houses in Austria or Germany near the Bavarian Alps. At center, a large, multi-storied home with two chimneys is prominently featured. Sketches above and at right are oriented to the right and show partial views of three houses, one that has exterior walls of shingled stone. At lower right, two church steeples with onion-shaped crowns are also included.
place: label: made in
content: Austria
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1459
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 20.7 × 12.3 cm (8 1/8 × 4 13/16 in.)