Mountain Peaks
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 sketches showing views of alpine mountains in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. At center, rocky pinnacles and cliffs are visible along an otherwise wooded ridge. River flows at their base in the foreground. At center right and oppositely oriented, a sharp peak is visible above wooded slopes.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view ofa church or castle parched above a lake in a dramatic mountain valley. At left and right and in the background, rugged mountain ridges envelope the valley. Lake's still waters are visible in the foreground.
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: 1917-4-1481
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: 12.4 × 20.9 cm (4 7/8 × 8 1/4 in.)