Mountain Landscape
date: label: Date
content: 1868–1886
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 rugged, barren mountain--possibly in Mexico (resembling Iztaccihuatl or Nevado de Toluca), Ottoman Syria, or elsewhere. The foreground and middle distance are rendered only in graphite and include a wooded hillside in the middle distance at right, a possible lake or body of water at center, and a group of trees or bushes at left. Rendered in oil paint, a distant mountain dominates the scene in the background. Its slopes are barren and dry (i.e., without trees or snow) and its ridge has several rugged peaks. The open sky above is a deep shade of blue.
place: label: place possibly depicted
content: Mexico
label: possibly made in
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: 1917-4-375-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: Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.7 × 36.1 cm (8 15/16 × 14 3/16 in.)