Peak of La Malinche, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
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 the volcano in Mexico called La Malinche, also known as Matlalcueye or Malintzin. Situated at center and viewed at a distance, the mountain is extremely rugged with rocky crags along its summit. A sharp, subsidiary summit is visible at left. At lower left, an indistinct sketch of what appears to be a bridge is included, while at lower right, a rectangular hacienda building is shown from a distance.
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: 1917-4-1129
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 × 16.6 cm (4 × 6 9/16 in.)