Clouds over Mountain Peaks
date: label: Date
content: August - September, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of several sharp peaks in a mountain range in the European Alps. At center, low-lying clouds hang among the summits of the peaks, between which a narrow valley is formed. At right, another tall, rocky mountain rises toward the clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketches showing two oppositely oriented views of wooded hills and rocky mountains by a river or lake. Above, a steep, wooded prominence is shown in the foreground and frames a rocky peak in the distance. Below, a river winds through a rolling, wooded landscape that gives way to taller, more rugged mountains in the background at left.
place: label: made in
content: Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Germany, Austria, or 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: 1917-4-373
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: 12 × 21 cm (4 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)