Bridge in the Mountains of 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 and architecture sketch showing a view of a bridge in the mountainous landscape of Mexico. In the foreground at left, a stone bridge arches over a largely unrendered stream, leading to a large, dark group of horses and mules at right. A lightly wooded hillside gently descends across the composition in the middle distance, from left to right. In the background at upper center left, a conical mountain with two sharp peaks looms over the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figures sketch from Mexico showing, at lower right, a nearby figure walking towards us, wearing draped robes like a monk, and at center, the dark, craggy summit of an extremely rugged and barren mountain.
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: 1917-4-1242
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.)