Mountain Peak, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: May 1, 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 a mountain peak in Mexico. Dominating the composition at center, the rugged peak has several rocky outcroppings and is generally rounded in form.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain range in Mexico. Viewed across a flat plain that comprises the foreground and middle distance, the mountain range rises abruptly to several sharp peaks. Behind it, a distant and shaded mountain range forms an undulating horizon in the background. Above, sunbeams radiate downward from behind a loosely rendered cloud bank.
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: 1917-4-1070
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 × 17.6 cm (4 × 6 15/16 in.)