Mountains near Lagos de Moreno, 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 a rugged mountain range near the city of Lagos de Moreno in Mexico. Sage brush and other bushes grow on flat terrain that extends from the foreground to the background, where a tall mountain range rises. Its craggy ridge with multiple sharp peaks creates a high, serrated horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the rising or setting sun in Mexico. A flat horizon stretches across the composition with a sharp mountain visible at left. At center, the orb of the sun is partially cut off by the horizon as it sends rays of sunlight up into the sky.
place: label: made in
content: Lagos de Moreno, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Lagos de Moreno, 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: 1917-4-1200
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 × 17.4 cm (4 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)