Mexican Landscape
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 the sun setting over the mountainous landscape of Mexico, likely near Toluca. In the foreground, nearby wooded mountainsides converge at lower center and descend toward the middle distance. One tree is prominently visible in the lower right corner. The middle distance is comprised of an expansive, relatively flat valley. In the background, a distant and rugged mountain range forms a serrated horizon. The sharp peaks at center may be those of Nevado de Toluca. The setting sun hangs just above the ridge and radiates visible sunbeams into the sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches from Mexico showing views of a male figure and a large, rugged mountain, possibly the Nevado de Toluca. At upper left, a man with curly hair and a mustache is shown wearing a short with rolled sleeves as he looks to his left. At center and right, an abrupt hill is shown in front of a sharp mountain with three pointed peaks--possibly Cerro Tlacotepec in front of Nevado de Toluca.
place: label: probably made in
content: near Toluca, Mexico
label: place probably depicted
content: near Toluca, 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: 1917-4-1223
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.)