View of the Königssee, Bavaria (Germany), Part One
date: label: Date
content: July 11, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Portion of a panoramic landscape sketch with 1917-4-563-b showing a view of the Königssee in Bavaria, present-day Germany. Scene is likely viewed from the Malerwinkel, or the shoreline at its base. The still, reflective surface of the lake extends from the foreground and into the background, bounded by incredibly steep and wooded mountainsides at left and right. In the background at upper center, two snow-capped mountains--the rounded Stuhljoch at left and the sharp, pointed Schönfeldspitze at right--peek over a rugged, rocky mountain ridge that creates a rolling horizon. Scene rendered in some detail.
place: label: place depicted
content: near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: made in
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: 1917-4-563-a
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, brush and white gouache on blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 43.8 cm (11 7/8 × 17 1/4 in.)