Mountains in 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 sketch showing a view of a rugged mountain range in Mexico cast in shadow. The mountain range stretches horizontally across the middle distance and features several sharp peaks and rugged ridges. A hill at lower right is cast in dark shadow by cloud above, while the rest of the range is slightly less dark with a bright spot at center left. In the background at center, a particularly pointed peak is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch from Mexico outlining an individual's head, in left profile. Situated at left, the individual has their mouth agape, and their curly hair cropped closely. Other facial features 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: 1917-4-1251-b
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 × 17.8 cm (4 × 7 in.)