Sketches of Trees and a Figure, 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: Botanical, landscape, and figure sketches from Mexico showing three views of trees and a figure washing clothes. At upper left, a deciduous tree with a split trunk is loosely rendered. At upper right, a large tree--also with a split trunk--is shown beside three thatched huts on flat terrain. A tree is extremely loosely rendered at lower right, such that its details are unclear. Finally, at lower left, a figure is shown likely washing clothes beside a water feature and near a kind of scaffolding or framework structure. This scene is loose and unclear.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain ridge in Mexico. Stretching across the upper half of the composition, the ridge rises at right to three steep and rocky peaks. In the background at left, a sharp, triangular mountain is visible in the distance.
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: 1917-4-1239-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.)