Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of closely-grouped buildings in the Old Town of Visp, Switzerland. At left, the pointed spire of Dreikönigskirche is visible, while at right, the belltower and rectangular basilica of St. Martin's Catholic Church are shown. A prominent building with a stepped gable at center is surrounded by several other multi-storied buildings. In the background, overlapping mountain ridges of the Bernese Alps are rendered as outlines.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- August 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.9 × 20.7 cm (4 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
