Mountains in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1883–1884
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 Mexico. In the foreground, a house is visible on a nearby summit at lower right. In the middle distance at center, the various sharp peaks, rugged ridges, and craggy fissures of a barren mountain range dominate the composition. Two tall, sharp summits are visible at center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of mountainous terrain in Mexico. In the foreground at center left, a water feature is visible at the base of a craggy prominence. A flat valley extends through the middle distance, bounded by sharp and rugged mountain ranges on either side. In the background, a different sharp mountain range forms a serrated horizon.
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: 1917-4-1201
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 light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)