Figures Washing at a Trough and Mountains, Bel Alp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 28, August 29, and September 4, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketch showing a standing and a seated figure washing clothes over a trough of water in a campsite surrounded by boulders and ledges. Beside them to the left, a basket and a large kettle are visible, while beyond them, a figure wearing a backpack climbs a slope. At right and oriented to the right, a wide view of rocky peaks in a mountain range is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketches showing views of the Aletsch Glacier at morning, at right, with a wooded hill descending from left to right in the foreground, while at left and oriented to the left, a view of water streaming down a rocky, rugged slope below a glacier is included. A small sketch of a mountain goat is visible at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-908
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 21.2 cm (4 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)