Mountain Peak with Clouds, 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 from Mexico showing a view of a sharp mountain peak surrounded by clouds. The peak is visible at center, emerging from a mass of billowing clouds that rise higher than that mountain at right. Scene resembles a volcano eruption.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view from Mexico of an immense and sharp mountain the distance. Foreground and middle distance are comprised of flat terrain, while the mountain dominates the composition at center. Pyramidal in shape, it has a sharp point at its peak and a shorter ridge at right.
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: 1917-4-1202
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 × 16.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 7/16 in.)