Drawing, Botanical Sketches and Waterfall, Rhone Valley, Switzerland

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 25-28, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan 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

21 × 12.1 cm (8 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: Valley of Rhone / August; in graphite, upper left: rich / fruity orange / berries / Foliage grey green leaves like / dwarf willow; in graphite, center left: up to 6 ft hgh / Brown; in graphite, center right: Willows / picturesque / White birches / Bushes with bright / red berries / Poplars - cult - / vines cultivated on plants / of mountain. Steep places / walled / Mountains much / seamed and furrowed - / Houses - white grey white / brown - wood color -; in graphite, lower left: waterfull / washing down / bare rock mountain; in graphite, verso lower center: water; in graphite, verso lower right: - Saxon - / Bet. Vevey & Sion

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