Mountains near Zapotlanejo, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: January 7, 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 view of mountains near the town of Zapotlanejo in Mexico. At upper left, an immense, pyramidal mountain is shown with a sharp peak and a deep, dark cleft or fissure down its center. At right and oriented to the right, a rugged mountain range is loosely rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a sloping hillside near the shores of Lake Cuitzeo in Mexico. Steeply descending from upper right to lower left, the hillside has patches of bushes, cacti, and barren, leafless trees. Another brush-covered hill is visible in the background at center.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: made in
content: Zapotlanejo, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Zapotlanejo, 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: 1917-4-1065
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 × 17.5 cm (3 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)