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 an isolated view of the volcano Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) in Mexico. Situated in the distance at center, the mountain's sharp, conical, and snow-capped peak is prominently visible, with dark, ridged flanks. Composition devoid of a foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketches showing two loosely rendered views of trees in Mexico. At left, three large branches of a tree are shown with dense leaves, while at right, a tree with an overhanging branch that grows horizontally is loosely and almost indistinctly sketched.
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: 1917-4-1238-a
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: 10.3 × 16.8 cm (4 1/16 × 6 5/8 in.)