Mountain Valley near the Königssee, Germany
date: label: Date
content: July 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 an oblique view of a sharp and rocky mountain range that extends from the foreground at right to the background at center. A craggy mountain with a vertical cliff is visible at left. A narrow, wooded valley floor is shown at lower center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a view of steep, wooded mountains along the shore of the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany. In foreground, that placid waters of the lake extend into the middle distance, where they reflect the vegetation on the shoreline above. Rising over the scene, at center, is a sharp, pyramidal peak.
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: 1917-4-559-b
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 blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 20.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)