Nevado de Toluca, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: January 7, 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 the stratovolcano in Mexico known as Nevado de Toluca, seen from the city of Toluca. In the foreground, the edge of a nearby hillside is visible at lower right. In the distant at center, the Nevado de Toluca is rendered with some detail. Among its tall, craggy peaks, its various fissures and ridges are shaded accordingly. One of the mountain's peaks, known as Pico del Aguila, is shown at center right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a mountain range near Toluca, Mexico. Devoid of a foreground, the composition depicts foothills in the middle distance at center right that quickly ascend to a rugged mountain ridge with a sharp peak at upper right. The mountain's various ridges and hillocks are lightly shaded.
place: label: made in
content: Toluca, 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: 1917-4-1067-b
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 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.)