Hacienda in Cuautla, 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 and architecture sketch showing a view of a hacienda and its courtyard in Cuautla, Mexico. In the foreground at center, a square courtyard is bounded by stone walls, which are viewed obliquely. According to inscriptions, the courtyard is filled with mules and horses, though none are rendered. A gate or door is visible at the far end of the courtyard at lower center. At center right, the tall, triangular gable of the hacienda building is starkly shown. Trees and bushes neighbor the hacienda at left, though which, the nearby train station is partially visible. Other town buildings are shown in the middle distance at right. In the background at left, the rugged ridge of Iztaccihuatl is visible beside the sloping mountainside of Popocatépetl, which climbs out of frame at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches from Cuautla, Mexico, showing views, at upper left, of a church's belltower and stepped facade; at upper right, a wide barn- or warehouse-like building shown obliquely; and at center, indistinct and undulating parallel lines that may represent a river or field.
place: label: made in
content: Cuautla, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Cuautla, 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: 1917-4-1074-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 × 17.6 cm (4 × 6 15/16 in.)