Plain and Mountain Ranges, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
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 rugged mountain ranges across a plain in Mexico. Comprising the middle distance, the plain is cast in dark shadow, as are portions of the mountains in the background at center and left. The ranges have several sharp peaks and rocky ridges.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Mexican stratovolcano known as Citlaltépetl (or Pico de Orizaba) and two incomplete figures. Prominently situated at center, the mountain's sharp, rugged peak is shown covered in fields of snow and rocky ridges. Portion of a cloud possibly rendered at upper right. Along the lower margin at left, two small, incomplete sketches of figures are visible.
place: label: place depicted
content: Mexico
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: 1917-4-1127
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 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)