Desert Mountains, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1890–93
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 a barren range of mountains in the Mexican desert. Across a sandy and stony expanse in the foreground with bushes in the middle distance, a rugged mountain rises at center. It has a pointy, pinnacle-like feature at right, with a sharp peak in the distance at left. Several short foothills are visible in front of the range.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a group of puffy clouds above a distant mountain range in Mexico. Across a dusty and shaded plain dotted with bushes, a rugged mountain range is visible on the horizon with several sharp peaks. Above, towering, puffy clouds are visible in an otherwise clear sky.
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: 1917-4-1235-b
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: 10.4 × 17.2 cm (4 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)