Sketches of Figures and a Boat, 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: Sketches from Mexico showing figures and a boat. At upper left, a shallow boat with one mast is viewed in left profile. At upper right, a person's face is shown in left profile with a brimmed hat sketched beside them. The upper torso of a figure wearing a hat is shown from behind at lower left, while at lower center a man and a woman with draped clothing are shown from behind. At lower right, a woman holding a basket is shown from the front while a detail of her face is included beside her at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a church in a valley in Mexico. Situated at center, the church is sketchily rendered from the front with its tall belltower at right. Behind it, steep mountainsides descend toward the center and converge behind the church.
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: 1917-4-1243
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.)