Landscape and Architecture Sketches, 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 and architecture sketches showing views of transparent mist in a wooded mountain valley at upper center, a hasty sketch of a wayside shrine at center left, and a loosely-rendered shoreline church, at lower right and oppositely oriented.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches around the Swiss alps showing views of two laden figures walking on a slope, at upper left, a facde of a house at upper right, mist filling a steep mountain valley at center, and a bird perched atop wrought iron ornamentation at lower left.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-1266
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 on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21 × 12.5 cm (8 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.)