Iztaccihuatl, Mexico
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 volcano known as Iztaccihuatl, near Mexico City, Mexico. In the foreground at right, a single cow grazes in a flat field that extends into the middle distance, where it encounters rugged hills. Dominating the scene in the background at center is the volcano Iztaccihuatl. It's numerous rugged, sharp peaks are blanketed in fields of snow, here articulated in oxidized black gouache, which appears black.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches from Mexico showing three views of rugged mountains. At upper right, a serrated mountain range is viewed across flat terrain, while lines frame the scene at left and below. At center left, a dark, barren mountain with two sharp peaks is visible. And at lower right, an extremely loose sketch of two rugged mountains is included.
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: 1917-4-1221
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 and oxidized white gouache on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.2 cm (4 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.)