Rugged Mountain Range, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
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 in Mexico. Viewed across expansive, flat terrain that comprises the foreground and middle distance, the mountain range features several sharp peaks that form serrated horizon. A particularly tall, craggy peak is shown in darkness at right, likely cast in shadow by an unseen cloud above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the burn scar of a wildfire in the mountainous topography of Mexico. In the foreground, sloping terrain descends into a ravine at lower left. In the middle distance at center, a large, black burn scar spreads horizontally across the landscape, widening as it goes. In the background, two prominent mountains are visible: at center, one with multiple craggy peaks, and at right, a conical mountain with a gently descending slope. Sporadic puffy clouds hang in the sky above.
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: 1917-4-1231-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: 10.2 × 17.1 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)