Figure Hiking in the Mountains of Toluca, 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 and figure sketch showing a person hiking over a group of three large boulders in the mountains of Toluca, Mexico. Situated in the foreground at center right, the individual holds their arms to their torso as they raise their left knee in a marching motion. Their clothing appears windblown. Three trees grow out of the boulders at right and frame the figure. In the background at left, the outline of a triangular mountain peak is visible below hazy sunset skies.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of the famed volcano known as Popocatépetl near Mexico City, Mexico. The mountain's craggy peak is visible in the background at center beyond other rugged peaks, which overlap at center right. Fields of snow are visible across the mountain's summit, highlighted in oxidized white gouache, which appears black.
place: label: made in
content: Toluca, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1224
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 and oxidized white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.1 cm (4 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.)