Botanical Sketches and Waterfall, Rhone Valley, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 25-28, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical and landscape sketches showing the branches of a bush with orange berries at upper left, two stalks of a reed-like plant at center left, and along the lower margin and oppositely oriented, a view of a waterfall over a bare, rocky mountain is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches showing, in the upper portion, a pyramidal roof with a tall chimney, and a house with three chimneys, exterior stairs, and vegetation around its base. Below these, at center, a castle with a tall, round tower is shown perched atop a hill. A partial figure study of a woman wearing a hat is visible to the left. Along the lower portion, a view of the town of Saxon in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, is visible. A castle sits atop a prominence at right while the town spreads across the valley floor below it.
place: label: made in
content: Saxon, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Saxon, 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: 1917-4-1466
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21 × 12.1 cm (8 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)