Railroad in the 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 railroad with a bridge through rugged mountains in Mexico. The railway's path visibly carves its way into nearly vertical cliffs and mountainsides in the foreground at left and right. In the middle distance at center, an immense bridge spans a deep gorge between two rugged prominences. In the background, serrated mountain ranges overlap on another.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain landscape with a railroad tunnel in Mexico. In the middle distance, two sheer mountainsides descend and coverage at center. The slope at right hosts a railroad tunnel on its edge, visible center fight. In the background, a range of sharp mountains extends obliquely into the distance.
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: 1917-4-1237-c
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 × 16.9 cm (4 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)