Sunrise over the Bernese Alps, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of the sun cresting the top of a mountain ridge in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. In the middle distance and loosely rendered, a rocky and rugged alpine ridge creates a jagged horizon that stretches across the composition. Snow or ice blankets the mountains at left. Above, the sun peaks over the top of the ridge, sending beams of light across the landscape and illuminated the tallest peaks at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-361-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: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 29.7 × 46.7 cm (11 11/16 × 18 3/8 in.)