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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, View from the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland, Part Two

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 27, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on beige wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

30.3 × 27.2 cm (11 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center: Trees / Clear / stones in steaks / Dirty but light / Tolaberably / smooth / clear / grey; lower right: clear / Bel Alp Aug 27th 68 / 2-parts; verso center left: great glacier bed / light grey / Ice [---] dirty

Cite this object as

Drawing, View from the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland, Part Two; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on beige wove paper; 30.3 × 27.2 cm (11 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-464-b

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