Views around Zacatecas, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: December 22, 1884
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketches showing views around the city of Zacatecas, Mexico. Along the upper margin, a town or village is shown nestled in rolling hills, which are illuminated by the morning sun. At center left, a rocky prominence in Zacatecas known as Bufa Hill is sketched in some detail. At lower right, sunbeams are shown falling upon a green plain.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of Bufa Hill in Zacatecas Mexico. A craggy prominence comprised predominantly of red and orange rock, Bufa Hill is shown here with a steep and rugged ridge.
place: label: made in
content: Zacatecas, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Zacatecas, 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: 1917-4-1122
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: 10.2 × 17.4 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)