Mountain Peaks, 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 a view of sharp mountain peaks in Mexico. At center, a summit with two sharp points has several furrows down its sides and a rugged ridge that leads to the right. In the background, a sharp, triangular mountain is visible at left. In the foreground at center, rocks appear to rest on nearby, flat ground. Above, clouds are loosely and indistinctly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a church nestled in a group of mountains in Mexico. The church is situated in the middle distance at center while steep mountainsides rise beside it at left and right. In the background, a dark, rounded peak is shown at center, while towering, rounded peaks backdrop the scene. Hazy clouds visible in the background.
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: 1917-4-1236-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: 10.4 × 17.3 cm (4 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)