Popocatépetl, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: December 18, 1883
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 storied volcano near Mexico City known as Popocatépetl. In the foreground, nearby scrub brush is visible at lower center while a rolling plain extends from the foreground through the middle distance. In the background, the conical form of Popocatépetl rises to a sharp, pointed summit at upper center and is flanked by rugged ridges on either side.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketch showing a view of an interlocking frieze design adorning at hotel in Texcoco, Mexico. Design characterized by series of oppositely oriented semi-circles that overlap and interweave with one another.
place: label: made in
content: Texcoco, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Texcoco, 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: 1917-4-1218
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 × 17.6 cm (4 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.)