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Drawing, The Valère from Tourbillon Castle, Sion, Switzerland
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 25-26, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on gray 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
27.3 × 38.2 cm (10 3/4 × 15 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: rock / fresh / beautifully broken / little fields scattered - grouped / and massed trees - / houses ploughed fields &c; upper right: 2 - Ivy / 3 - town slate roofs blue grey / houses yellowish & drab; center: green / browner / black mottled [?] / [slate?] / 3 / 2; center right: scattered trees; lower left: black grey & grey green rocks / cropping out of brown earth (ploughed); lower center: grass; lower right: 2 parts / 1st / [arrow pointing up] south / Aug /68 / Sion / Rhone Valley
Cite this object as
Drawing, The Valère from Tourbillon Castle, Sion, Switzerland; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on gray wove paper; 27.3 × 38.2 cm (10 3/4 × 15 1/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1474
