Lake Pátzcuaro, 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 an oblique view of the mountainous coastline of Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico, possibly view from near the town of Tzintzuntzan. At lower right, the flat surface of the lake extends from the foreground into the middle distance. At left, extremely steep, layered mountainsides descend to the lake shore. In the middle distance at upper center, a tall ridge looms over the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches from Mexico including a bowl with a floral decoration at left, a small, dark tree at upper center, and a rosette at right. At lower center, two figures carrying a long container are shown beside a group of three figures holding long boughs into the air.
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: 1917-4-1256-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 light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17.6 cm (4 × 6 15/16 in.)