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Drawing, Figures Washing at a Trough and Mountains, Bel Alp, Switzerland

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 28, August 29, and September 4, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green wove 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

11.9 × 21.2 cm (4 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, lower right: Aug 28 /68; in graphite, verso upper left: Dark lines / water - streaming over grassy ledges / glaciers above; in graphite, verso upper right: crags high up; in graphite, verso center: Remember two or three blue spots / like water standing / in glacier; in graphite, verso lower left: Sep 4 / /68; in graphite, verso lower right: Aletsch & other glaciers / morning effect - with clouds / & sunshine / Aug 29 /68

Cite this object as

Drawing, Figures Washing at a Trough and Mountains, Bel Alp, Switzerland; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache; 11.9 × 21.2 cm (4 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-908

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