Rockface near Belalp, Switzerland
date: label: Date
content: August 28, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch a view of a sheer, rocky cliff face in the Bernese Alps the hamlet of Belalp. Dominating the composition at center and right, the rockface has an uneven, fragmented surface and a jagged upper edge. In the distnace, the Rhone is visible as it winds though valley floor below. In the background, the snowcapped mountains that form the opposite side of the valley are visible.
place: label: made in
content: Belalp, 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: 1917-4-504
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 gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 30.1 cm (10 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)