Mixed Sketches with a Lion Statue, 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: Mixed sketches from Mexico including a figure in a canoe viewed in right profile at upper right, architectural designs and an obliquely viewed building at lower right, and at left, a statue of a lion or jaguar that turns its head toward the viewer, is visible. The lion is carved out of solid rock and affixed to a flat pedestal. Lion statue is possibly a Pre-Columbian artifact.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketch of a statue of a lion in Mexico, facing left. It is affixed to a flat surface as it arches its back upwards and turns its head toward the viewer. Striations around its neck and head likely represent its mane.
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: 1917-4-1381
objectType: 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 × 17.8 cm (4 1/16 × 7 in.)