Moonlight over the Bernese Alps, Belalp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 28-31, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose landscape sketch showing a view of the Bernese Alps and the Rhône Valley of Switzerland at night form the hamlet of Belalp. Below, a dark foreground gentle arches across the composition while the silhouettes of steep mountainsides at left and right frame a view of a distant, steep peak at center. Above, the moon illuminates a bank of clouds in the night sky.
place: label: made in
content: Belalp, Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-936-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 and white gouache on tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 22.5 × 24.4 cm (8 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)