Mountains in Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February 1885
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch of a rugged mountain ridge in Mexico. Viewed across a plain that covers gently rolling terrain in the foreground and middle distance, the mountain range includes a sharp peak at center right and several craggy ridges at center left. Large portions of the range are darkened by shadow. At center, an extremely faint sketch of a church dome is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a tree's dense canopy in Mexico. At center, several branches are visible, flanked by billowing and loosely sketched masses of leaves at left and 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: 1917-4-1073
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 × 17.4 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)