Rugged Mountain Peak, 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 sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain peak in Mexico, possibly that of the volcano Iztaccihuatl. Situated at center, the mountain has multiple sharp crags and pinnacles along its wide peak, while its lower slopes are dark and loosely rendered. Composition devoid of a foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a distant view of an immense mountain in Mexico, viewed across rugged and rolling terrain. In the foreground at right, a cliff made up of white rocks hosts an assortment of vegetation. In the background at center left, an immense, conical mountain looms over a rolling and largely indistinct middle distance. Horizontal line coming off of peak at right may indicate the line of a shadow.
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: 1917-4-1238-b
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: 10.4 × 16.7 cm (4 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.)