Rugged Mountains in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: December 21, 1884
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 mountains in northern or central Mexico. Viewed across a vast, flat plain that comprises the foreground and middle distance, a serrated range of dark, sharp mountains stretches across the background. Another taller and similarly rugged range is visible along the horizon at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketches showing a view of rolling terrain and two figures in Mexico. In the middle distance, a gently arching hill descends from center to center right and is covered in small vegetation. A building is visible at far right while a sharp mountain peak is visible in the background at center right. In the upper left corner, two sketches of individuals hauling large baskets of corn on their back are included.
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: 1917-4-1121
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 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.)