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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Basin of the Obersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on brown 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

17.6 × 25.1 cm (6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower right, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: grey / 2 2; in graphite, lower center: Lake / green turquoise / Blue; in graphite, lower right: From Konigsee June /68 / 2 - reddish streaks lined / with streaks of trees; in graphite, verso upper center: 2; in graphite, verso center left: 2 Snow; in graphite, lower left: Konigsee Lake / June /1868

Cite this object as

Drawing, Basin of the Obersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany); Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on brown wove paper; 17.6 × 25.1 cm (6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-566

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