St. Gilgen by the Wolfgangsee, Austria, 1868 pencil sketch

A loose graphite sketch shows a lakeshore with a dark tree and rocky bank on the left, mountains rising across the water, and a small village with a church spire at right. Handwritten notes in pencil along the bottom edge read "St. Gilgen" and a date.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

August 8, 1868

Medium

Graphite on gray-green wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 3196 px

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