Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing oblique, loosely-rendered view of a tall, rocky mountain range in the Rhone Valley near Sion, Switzerland extending from right to left toward the horizon.
- Verso: Architecture and landscape sketches showing Valère Basilica and Tourbillon castle in Sion, Switzerland. In upper half, the massive, multi-tiered central building of the basilica is visible, with the tower of the medieval church of Notre-Dame-de-Valère. Below, the elongated stone wall and round tower of Tourbillon Castle are visible atop a rugged, barren hill.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- August 24-25, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 8.6 × 12 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
