Figure Sketches, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1883–1884
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketches including fifteen partial and complete views of men and women in Mexico, almost entirely viewed obliquely from behind. At upper left, a sketch of a woman wearing draped clothing is visible beside that of a woman's upper body as she holds a child. At upper center, a scene of multiple figures at a bar or counter is included. At upper right, four partial views of a man in a brimmed hat are visible. Along the lower margin at lower center and lower right, six men and women are sketch from behind. The women wear draped skirts while the men wear broad brimmed hats, boots, and what appear to be wool scarves.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of an expansive plain bounded by mountains in Mexico. The flat terrain extends from the foreground to the background, where a sharp and rugged mountain range stretches across the horizon, faintly rendered. At lower right, a loose sketch of a covered wagon is included.
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: 1917-4-1219
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 16.6 cm (4 1/16 × 6 9/16 in.)