Dove Houses, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February 21 and 24, 1890
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of a structure containing dove houses in Mexico. Situated in the foreground at left, the dove houses are positioned within a wooden, framework structure on stilts. Openings for the doves are visible in the center of the structure. Relatively flat terrain extends through the middle distance and into the background, where a grove of trees is visible at center right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Small architecture sketch showing an oblique view of a granary in Mexico. Situated at left, the granary is semicircular in form, shaped like a barrel vault with a dark doorway on its facade. A cactus grows from its rear.
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: 1917-4-1099-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17.2 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)