Mountains across a Plain, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: April 1892
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 a sharp, rugged mountain range in Mexico. A flat plain dotted with dark vegetation extends from the foreground through the middle distance. In the background, an immense, serrated mountain range is visible along the horizon. Their peaks are dark and heavily shaded. A shorter but equally serrated range of foothills stretches horizontally before the mountains.
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: 1917-4-1046-a
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 beige wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)