Figure and Architecture Sketches, 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: Figure and architecture sketches showing various views of individuals and a church in Mexico. At upper left, a small church with a gabled roof and a large doorway is viewed obliquely, while at lower right, the church's ornate cross is sketched in detail. At lower left, center, and lower right, eight figures are shown largely from behind, as most of them wear hats and/or draped clothing. At upper right, a portion of a heavily wooded hillside is minimally sketched.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches from Mexico showing, at lower right, a standing figure wearing a hat and a poncho who faces us with his legs crossed; at center, an extremely loose outline of a rugged mountain range with a sharp peak; and at left, a fragment of a larger view that includes a dark and rugged mountaintop.
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: 1917-4-1248
objectType: 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.)