Mountains and Clouds in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: April 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 clouds over mountainous terrain in Mexico. In the middle distance, a large, bulging mountain is shown at center left while another range is faintly rendered behind it at right. Above, a variety of puffy clouds are variously lit in an otherwise blue and open sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a fragment of a panoramic view of Toluca, Mexico, predominantly illustrated in 1917-4-1072-b. At far right, a portion of a wooded hill is loosely rendered. Two trees are prominently visible.
place: label: made in
content: near Toluca, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: near Toluca, 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: 1917-4-1072-a
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: 10.1 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.)