Mountainous Landscape, 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 sharp mountain ranges in Mexico. In the foreground and middle distance, two shallow slopes at left and right overlap at center, where a craggy mountain rises in the distance. In the background, the outline of a serrated mountain range fades near the margins at left and right. Puffy, isolated clouds hang throughout the landscape.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a cloud bank over mountains in Mexico. At center, a rugged ridge stretches across the composition, rising at left and right. Above, a dark and low cloud bank is hastily articulated.
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: 1917-4-1237-a
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
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 17.3 cm (4 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)