The Aletsch Glacier from Belalp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: September 1, 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 Aletsch Glacier from near Belalp, Switzerland. Rugged, overlapping ridges in the foreground at lower left partially obstruct the view of the glacier in the middle distance at upper left. The glacier snakes through the valley, bounded craggy alpine ridges at left and right. Snow fields are highlighted in white gouache throughout these sharp peaks. In the background, the extensive peaks of the Swiss Alps form a serrated horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Small landscape sketch at upper right showing a loosely rendered view of a rugged alpine ridge in Switzerland with several sharp peaks, continued from the depiction of the Aletsch Glacier on the leaf's opposite side.
place: label: made in
content: Belalp, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: near Belalp, 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: 1917-4-276-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, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 38.2 cm (10 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.)