Cathedral in Mexico with Figure
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: Architecture sketches showing views of a building and a bridge in Mexico. In the foreground at lower right, a stone bridge is shown obliquely traversing a ditch or stream. The terrain around it is loosely articulated. In the upper left corner, a square building a with a small dome is also viewed obliquely.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and figure sketches of a large ornate cathedral in Mexico and, separately, a figure with a jug upon her head. Dominating the composition at right, the decorated domes and belltower of the church are visible above and behind a nearby building with an exterior walkway on the second story. At left, a woman wearing draped clothing and carrying a jug on her head is sketched in left profile.
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: 1917-4-1246
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 16.8 cm (4 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)