Mountains in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: December 21, 1885
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 mountains in Mexico. Viewed across an extensive plain that comprises the foreground and middle distance, three abrupt prominences rise out of the otherwise flat terrain. Reminiscent of the rock monoliths in Monument Valley, Arizona, these formations have sheer, almost vertical sides and flat or craggy tops.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of distant and rugged mountain ranges in Mexico. Viewed across a dark, flat plain that comprises the foreground and middle distance, four rugged foothills are visible in front of a long mountain range that extend across the horizon. A flat peak is situated in the background at center.
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: 1917-4-1123
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 × 17.4 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)