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Drawing, Architecture Sketches and Woman Carrying Basket, Switzerland

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on blue wove paper; verso: graphite. 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

12 × 21.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: white / vines; in graphite, center: House rich brown white / basement flooded with vines; in graphite, lower right: green herbage / in basket / yellow / basket / red head / dress / Dark blue / dress / Rhone Valley; in graphite, verso upper right: Near Hotel Bel Alp / Aug /68; in graphite, verso lower left: grass

Cite this object as

Drawing, Architecture Sketches and Woman Carrying Basket, Switzerland; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on blue wove paper; verso: graphite; 12 × 21.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1184

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