Object Timeline

1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Sketches around the Königssee, Bavaria, and Vöcklabruck, Austria

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July - August 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache. 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

17.7 × 24.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower left, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: Chim / vocklabruck; in graphite, upper right: White / sleeves / blue dress; in graphite, verso upper left: very dark; in graphite, upper right: lichen [?]; in graphite, center: 2 2 / Darker / grey; in graphite, lower center: rich green / green grass sunlight / lake; in graphite, lower right: 2 - Delicious grey / contrast of rock [?] / mass of grey rock / Dark rock (left) and / rich green & yellow / foreground

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sketches around the Königssee, Bavaria, and Vöcklabruck, Austria; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey-green laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache; 17.7 × 24.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1199

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