Frederic Edwin Church

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Frederic Edwin Church, Alpine Lake, Bavaria or Switzerland, 1868 #openaccess #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22843
Drawing, Alpine Lake, Bavaria or Switzerland

The end of a lake surrounded by woods. Rising around are steep mountain range.

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Drawing, Morning Landscape

The rising sun in a blue sky is shown over the tops of hills.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Landscape View From El Bordo On The Rio Patia Guachicona Valley Between Popayan and Pasto, Colombia, August 13, 1853 #fredericedwinchurch #museumarchive http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23919
Frederic Edwin Church, Upper Aletsch Glacier with the Great Fusshorn, August 27, 1868 #museumarchive #cooperhewittdesignmuseum http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23128
Drawing, Upper Aletsch Glacier with the Great Fusshorn

Horizontal study of the Aletsch Glacier across two sheets of paper (-a & -b). The sheet shows roughly one third of the view. The glacier is in the foreground against a backdrop of mountain slopes. Notations throughout, including: Trees; clear / stones in streaks; dirty but light / tolerably / smooth; clear; dirt; grey [?]. Verso: Small sketch with a mound in the rear, inscribed: Great glacier bed / light grey; Ice [?] dirty.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Rocky Hillside, North Carolina, 1880 #openaccess #museumarchive https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23147
Drawing, Rocky Hillside, North Carolina

Vertical view of a wooded slope with a rock at center, trees at top and shrubs growing out of rocks.

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Drawing, Shrine, Bavaria

Distant view of the pavilion containing the three crosses in front of a painted background, the slope of the Lockstein. Grazing sheep or goats and a house are shown at the right bottom. Dated bottom left. An account is written with pencil in the left bottom part.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Valley among Mountains, Guanoco, near Guaranda, Ecuador., June 11, 1857 #chndm #museumarchive https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/21942
Frederic Edwin Church, Fallen Column of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, April 1869 #fredericedwinchurch #chndm https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23291
Drawing, Summer landscape

A partially wooded hill range under a sky with small clouds with the last reflection of the setting sun.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece, April 1869 #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22894
Drawing, Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece

Horizontal view of the Parthenon lit at night.

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