Lake Thun, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 20, 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 the expansive, placid Lake Thun in Switzerland, with a view of buildings on the opposite shoreline in the middle distance at center. Wooded hillsides abruptly rise around the town. In the background, a mountain wall of the Swiss alps is visible. In lower left corner, a small vignette showing two buildings on a hill is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch of the buildings that comprise Castle Thun in the Swiss city of the same name. In the foreground, river waters reflect vegetation and buildings near the bank. Above, the primary tower of the castle overlooks several structures below on the hillside.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-963-a
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: 8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)