City on a Plain in the Mountains of Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1883–1884
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 distant city on a wide plain in or near mountains in Mexico. The plain extends from the foreground through the middle distance, where it meets the base of an extremely rugged mountain range that stretches across the horizon. A particularly sharp peak is visible at center left, while another mountain range looms in the distance. At the base of the mountains at left, the buildings of a city or town are visible, especially twin belltowers that are presumably part of a church.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketches from Mexico showing a rugged mountain range with a sharp peak at and ascending ridge at right stretching across the horizon, while at lower left, two figure sketches are visible. One, at left, shows the torso, head, and right arm of a man viewed from behind, while the figure sketch at right is a man wearing a brimmed hat viewed in left profile as he rests his hands on his hips. His feet and ankles are not rendered.
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: 1917-4-1209
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 light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)