Figures and Mountains, 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: Landscape and figure sketches from Mexico showing, at lower right, three figures--ostensibly a father, child, and mother--walking in a diagonal line. The father and foremost figure is wrapped in a dark shawl and wears a brimmed hat, the child behind him also wears a hat and seemingly tattered clothing, while the mother, at far right, faces us as she is wrapped in a light shawl. Dominating the composition at center and upper left, a large, rugged mountain is shown with multiple craggy and sharp peaks positioned along the upper margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of clouds over rugged mountain ranges in Mexico. At center, a dark mountain with two sharp peaks is shown in the middle distance below several billowing and loosely rendered clouds. In the background at right, another rugged mountain range is outlined.
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: 1917-4-1245
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 tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 16.9 cm (4 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)