Pico de Orizaba, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Pico de Orizaba in Mexico. A series of treetops extends horizontally across the immediate foreground. Outlined hills or mountainsides converge in the middle distance at center, while in the background, the snow-capped summit of Pico de Orizaba is rendered in some detail. Conical in shape, the mountain has a sharp peak and ridged flanks.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical and landscape sketches from Mexico showing, at left, a puffy mass of treetops grouped closely together and, at right, the outline of a mountain ridge with a sharp peak.
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: 1917-4-1234
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: 10.4 × 16.9 cm (4 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)