Architecture Sketch, Visp, 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 sketch showing a view of multi-storied buildings in the town of Visp, in Switzerland's Rhone Valley. In the middle distance, beyond a stream with a gravelly shore in the foreground, the facade of a three-storied, rectangular building is shown with multiple bay windows midway up. Other buildings are shown at left and right, while steep mountainsides are visible in the background at right.
place: label: made in
content: Visp, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Visp, 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: 1917-4-1479
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 light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.1 × 12.3 cm (8 5/16 × 4 13/16 in.)