Rugged Mountains and Family, 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: Landscape and figure sketches from Mexico of a rugged mountain range and what appears to be a family. At center and left, a rugged and ridged mountain range extends obliquely into the distance, where a sharp, craggy visible in the background. A nearby ledge is visible in the immediate foreground at left. At lower right, figure sketches of a family are included. The father, at right, wears a brimmed hat and poncho as he looks down to his daughter at lower center. At left, the wife, or possibly an older daughter, wears a skirt as she holds a small child.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketches from Mexico showing two views of landscapes and, separately, a laden donkey. At upper right, a wooded hillside descends gently to the right, while overlapping and rugged mountain ranges are visible in the background at right. At lower left, a separate view looking down a waterway that is framed by hilly shores at left and right is included. A loose sketch of what appears to be a flower is visible at lower center, while a laden donkey trots towards us at lower right.
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: 1917-4-1240
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 × 17.3 cm (4 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)