Mountainous Landscape, 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 an expansive mountainous landscape in Mexico. In the immediate foreground, a nearby tree-covered mountainside is visible at lower right. In the middle distance, a low cloud intercedes between a flat, wooded prominence and a sharp mountain ridge behind. The outline of a rugged mountain range extends across the background, forming a high and serrated horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a lone barren mountain in Mexico. Positioned in the middle distance at center, the mountain has a foremost ridge that descends to the left, while the rugged twin peaks behind it are darkened by shadow. Foreground unrendered.
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: 1917-4-1237-b
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 × 17.2 cm (4 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)