Palm Tree beside a Building, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1884–1885
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of a tall palm tree beside a building in Mexico. Situated at center, the palm tree has a tall trunk and a lush crown. In the sky beside its fronds, at right, the orb of the sun or moon is visible, surrounded by light clouds (based on color inscriptions, this is likely the moon). Beside the tree at right is the facade of a building with what appears to be a covered porch. Along the lower portion of the composition, a smaller, looser version of this view is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch from Mexico showing a loosely rendered view of rugged and overlapping mountain ranges seen across a field of corn, which extends from the foreground through the middle distance.
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: 1917-4-1076
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: 17.4 × 10.2 cm (6 7/8 × 4 in.)