Mexican Landscape
date: label: Date
content: April 20, 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 a rolling landscape with clouds in Mexico. In the foreground, trees are visible at left and right while the terrain seems to descend to an indistinct middle distance. In the background at center left, a sharp mountain shaped like a shallow triangle is visible along the horizon. In the sky above at right, a group of billowing clouds is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketch of a building in Mexico. Rectangular in shape, the building appears to have a crenellated wall at left and a tower whose top is unfinished at right. A large doorway is possibly shown at center left.
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: 1917-4-1071
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: 10.1 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)