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Upper Aletsch Glacier with the Great Fusshorn

Horizontal study of the Aletsch Glacier across two sheets of paper (-a & -b). The sheet shows roughly two thirds of the view. The glacier is in the foreground against a backdrop of mountain slopes, with the high range in the rear. The Fusshorn rises in the left center, and the Rothhorn is in the center of the background. Notations throughout, including: 2's; Broken with rounded ledges / scattered trees, stones, etc.; Dark; trees; grey / gravel; gravel; Dirty ice; 2 greenish blue / cleal ial [?]; little black / dirt.

Credit: Gift of Louis P. Church

August 27, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on grey-buff paper
1917-4-464-a
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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