Mountains in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
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 rugged mountains in Mexico. Situated in the background across expansive flat terrain, a serrated mountain range made up of sharp peaks stretches across the horizon. A tall peak is visible along the left margin, while in the distance at center, a heavily shadowed peak is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch from Mexico showing a burn scar from a wildfire, which stretches across flat terrain in the middle distance, and a rugged mountain range in the background. Two sharp, twin peaks are visible at center, while a dark, low range of foothills are included in front of the mountains.
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: 1917-4-1231-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: 10.2 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)