Mountain and Structure, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch from Mexico showing a view of a rugged mountain peak and an indistinct structure. At left, the pyramidal and extremely rocky peak of a mountain is loosely sketched. At right, an architectural element consisting of two points atop a rectangular feature (possibly crenellations) is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a rugged mountainside in Mexico. At center, the contour of a rocky and undulating mountain range stretches across the composition, while what appears to be a dark band of rock strata arches from center left to center. Scene is largely indistinct.
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: 1917-4-1255-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: 10.2 × 17.2 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)