Mountain Range across a Plain, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain range across a flat plain in Mexico. The foreground and middle distance are comprised of this plain, which is dotted with bushes and other small vegetation. In the background, a craggy, sharp mountain range stretches across the horizon with a pointed peak at center right. Faint, puffy clouds hang in the sky above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches showing views of a church and two rectangular buildings in Mexico. Situated at upper center, the large dome and tall belltower of a church are visible atop a tree-covered prominence. At center right, a rectangular tower with one window is viewed obliquely. At lower center, a squat, rectangular building is also viewed obliquely as it is situated on gently arching terrain with bushes.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1252-b
objectType: 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: 10.2 × 17.2 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)