Mountain Landscape with a Cow, 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 sketch showing a view of a mountainous landscape in Mexico. In the middle distance at center right, a dark cow grazes in an expansive plain that stretches to the background, where an extremely rugged, layered mountain range forms the horizon. Foothills are visible in front of a sharp and lofty peak at center right. At the base of the hills at extreme left, distant trees or possibly structures are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure and landscape sketches from Mexico showing a mountain and a detailed view of a seated man. At center right, a distant and dark mountain peak is minimally rendered. At upper left, a seated man wearing a brimmed hat holds a striped blanket or poncho as he lights a cigarette. Beside him at left is the outline of a man's head wearing a brimmed hat.
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: 1917-4-1208
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
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 16.9 cm (4 1/16 × 6 5/8 in.)