Clouds and Mist over the Sea, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February 1893
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of clouds and mist off the coast of Mexico, likely in the Gulf of Mexico near Veracruz. Dark, rippling ocean water extends from the foreground to the low horizon, where a distant ship is minimally visible at right. Billowing, energetic clouds comprise the rest of the composition and faint into invisibility toward center and the upper margin.
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: 1917-4-614
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 16.7 cm (4 × 6 9/16 in.)