Alpine Glacier
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view of a glacier beneath a rocky, serrated peak, likely in the Bavarian or Bernese Alps. Grassy, rolling hillsides stretch across the foreground and lead to a steep, rocky mountainside in the middle distance at left. At center, the blue and white ridges of a glacier are visible below the sharp, jagged peaks of a nearby mountain. Above, the cloudless sky is rendered in a shade of rich, royal blue.
- Verso: Fern branches and leaves blotted and silhouetted in green.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- June - September, 1868
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-670-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: oil or green ink
- Dimensions
- 21.8 × 32.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- made in
- Germany or Switzerland
- Germany or Switzerland
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-670-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4551e4b9e-0884-4f0e-a293-2d6ae3ea76aa
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