Obersee, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: July 17, 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 northwestern view of the lake known as the Obersee in the Bavarian alps near Berchtesgaden, present day Germany. At left, a precipitous mountainside steeply descends to a wooded shore along the water's edge. The water itself stretches from the foreground at right to the middle distance at center, where it encounters the Saletalm--a spit of land that separates the Obersee from the Königssee. Completed on the lake's southern shore, the view features the towering peaks of the Hachelkopf, at left, and the dual peaks of the Watzmann, in the background at center arnd right.
place: label: made in
content: near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: near Berchtesgaden, 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: 1917-4-278-b
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 and white gouache on tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30 × 44.1 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)