Lake Cuitzeo, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February 1885
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing of a view of Lake Cuitzeo in Mexico and its surroundings. In the foreground, loosely rendered plants and a tree are visible at lower center and lower right. The flat surface of the lake extends across the middle distance, until it encounters the opposite shoreline. Rugged mountain ranges with pointed peaks extend across the horizon in the background. Two wispy clouds are loosely rendered above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of Popocatépetl and a church in Ozumba de Alzate in Mexico. A sketch of the immense stratovolcano Popocatépetl is completed dominates the upper portion of the composition and is completed in some detail. It's sharp, conical peak is joined by a smaller, subsidiary peak at left. In the lower left corner and oriented to the left, the facade and belltower of a church--likely the Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción de Ozumba--are loosely rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: made in
content: Ozumba, Mexico
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1068
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.1 × 17.5 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)