Cascade near the Königssee, Germany
date: label: Date
content: August 2, 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 a waterfall near the Königssee, Germany. At center, the water--rendered in white gouache--cascades down a cleft in the mountainside and gathers in a foaming pool at its base. Sharp forms of the rocky ledge visible along upper margin. Waterfall curves slightly to the left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches showing view of houses, a wooden cabin, and a village at the foot of a mountain. At upper center, two possibly urban, stone houses are shown obliquely. At center, a simple rectilinear log cabin is visible, built on a rocky slope. Oppositely oriented at lower center, a village with a prominent tower is shown at the base of a steep mountainside.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-1185
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 blue laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21.6 × 12 cm (8 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)