Monte Rosa above the Anzasca Valley, Italy
date: label: Date
content: September 10-12, 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 Monte Rosa looming over the Anzasca Valley in the Pennine Alps of Italy. Steep, rugged mountain slopes at left and right converge into a narrow valley in the foreground at center. A group of buildings is shown on a slope at right. In the background, serrated mountain range stretches across the horizon, culminating in the snow-capped Monte Rosa, situated in the upper right corner.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view looking down the Anzasca Valley, which terminates at Monte Rosa, in the Pennine Alps of Italy. Steep, rugged mountain slopes at left and right converge into a narrow valley in the foreground at center. A group of buildings is shown on a slope at right. In the background, serrated mountain range stretches across the horizon. At left and oriented to the left, a vignette of a rocky, snowy mountain range is included.
place: label: made in
content: Pontegrande, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Italy
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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: 1917-4-926
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 21 cm (4 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)