Mixed Sketches, Obersee, 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: Mixed sketches around the Obersee in Bavaria, Germany showing views of a large fish just below the water's surface, at upper center, figures piloting a canoe at center, with three partial views of a figure wearing traditional German lederhosen and an alpine hat, shown from the back and side. At lower right and opposite oriented, a partial sketch of a figure hiking with a backpack is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Königssee in Bavaria, Germany and its steep, wooded shoreline. Water stretches from foreground to middle distance, where it meets a heavily wooded shoreline. In background, a hill on the shore of the lake is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Germany
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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: 1917-4-571-b
objectType: 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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 21 × 12.2 cm (8 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)