Alps over Hinterer Gosausee, Austria

A faint graphite sketch of craggy mountain peaks rises across the upper left, with a sloping ridge descending toward a pale, open foreground. Small trees and a tiny building appear at the right edge, and handwritten pencil notes read "Gosau" and a date in the lower right corner.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

August 6, 1868

Medium

Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 3923 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum