Great Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 31, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch of the Aletsch Glacier near Bel Alp Hotel in Switzerland. The glacier, rendered in white gouache, winds through a mountain valley from lower right toward the horizon at center. Elongated striations made of rock and debris, known as medial moraines, visibly curve down the spine of the glacier. At left and right, the sheer, rugged mountainsides of the Bernese Alps hem in the glacier. A break in the cloudy sky is shown above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies around the Bel Alp Hotel in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. At center, a pyramidal, snow-capped alpine peak is shown in some detail while, at lower right, a loose sketch of a cabin is included. Along the right margin and oppositely oriented, three sketches of mountain goats are visible.
place: label: place depicted
content: Aletsch Glacier, Bernese Alps, Switzerland
label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-546
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.8 × 20.9 cm (4 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)