Architectural Sketches, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1890–93
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketches showing three views of buildings in Mexico. At upper left, a church with a dome and a tall, narrow belltower is shown from its side. Below it, at lower center, a terra cotta-tiled roof with a chimney is rendered in great detail. At center right, a mausoleum shaped like the circular drum of a dome is shown in detail. Its upper portion has several arched openings.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketches from Mexico showing four figures in various positions, at various activities. Prominently featured at right, two men wearing ponchos and wide-brimmed hats (likely sombreros) obscure their faces as they are shown obliquely. At upper center, a figure wearing a hat appears to be slouched upon a doorway and its steps. At upper left, a figure kneels and washes clothes by a body of water. Finally, a separate sketch showing a bundle of charcoal is included at lower left.
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: 1917-4-526
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: 10.4 × 17.2 cm (4 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)