Nevado de Toluca, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: January 1885
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 the stratovolcano known as Nevado de Toluca, near the city of Toluca in Mexico. Shown in the distance at center, the volcano has two notably tall and sharp peaks. The tallest, known as Pico del Fraile, is visible at center, while the shorter of the two, Pico del Águila, is the sharp summit at right. The mountain's rugged ridge continues to the left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a mountainous landscape in Mexico with a large structure. In the middle distance at center, what appears to be a church belltower is flanked indistinct vegetation. Behind it, succeeding layers of rugged mountain ridges ascend to a tall peak in background at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: Toluca, 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: 1917-4-1067-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 paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.)