Church in the Mountains of Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1883–1884
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 church in a mountainous landscape in Mexico. Situated in the middle distance at center, the Church has a tall, square belltower at right with a pointed roof. A group of bushes or other vegetation is visible beside it at right. Behind it, a barren and rugged mountain range with many ridges and furrows extends across the horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view from Mexico of a distant mountain range across a plain. Grass is visible in the immediate foreground at center while the middle distance is an empty expanse representing a plain. In the background, a serrated mountain range stretches across the horizon, beneath low, puffy clouds and falling sunbeams, visible along the upper margin.
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: 1917-4-1205
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 light green paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)