Moonlight over the Watzmann, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: July 27, 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 moonlit view of the mountain known as the Watzmann in the Bavarian alps near Berchtesgaden, present day Germany. In the foreground at left, a stand of conifer trees is shown atop a rounded prominence while a river runs through a deep gully at center. Across a dark, misty expanse, the sharp, twin peaks of the Watzmann are visible as darkened silhouettes beneath the veiled light of the moon, which also gently illuminates the clouds in the sky above.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-473-c
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 blue laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.7 × 44.1 cm (9 3/4 × 17 3/8 in.)