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Drawing, Cloud-Capped Jungfrau, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 20-21, 1868

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 20-21, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on 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

8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: 2 2 / 2 2 2 2 / blue grey / occassional warm faint streaks / 2 rich warm yellow lights / brown shadows [---] [---] / with cool shadows below; in graphite, lower right: Aug /68 / Near Interlaken; in graphite, verso upper left: 3 - rich warm lights / and greens; in graphite, verso upper right: 2 - blue snow / in shadow; in graphite, verso center: clouds / 3 3 2 2 2 2; in graphite, verso lower left: Aug /68; in graphite, verso lower center: Jung Frau; in graphite, verso lower right: over

Cite this object as

Drawing, Cloud-Capped Jungfrau, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 20-21, 1868; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Switzerland; graphite on paper; 8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-195

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