Architectural Sketches near Tlalmanalco and Miraflores, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: March 1885
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketches showing views of buildings and ruins around Tlalmanalco and Miraflores, Mexico. At left, an extremely ornate, undulating doorway is sketched in detail. At right, a large rectangular building, like the nave of a church, is visible in front of the faint outline of a sharp mountain peak.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of Citlaltépetl, also known as Pico de Orizaba, from the city of Orizaba, Mexico, or a location nearby. Prominently situated at center, the mountain has one sharp peak at right that descends to a shorter subsidiary peak at left. The mountain is snow-capped and dark fields of rock and soil are visible. Below it and to the left, the outline of the same mountain is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Tlalmanalco de Velázquez, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Tlalmanalco de Velázquez, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: made in
content: Orizaba, 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: 1917-4-1379
objectType: 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
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17.5 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)