Ploughing near Mountains in 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 a view of a pair of oxen or cattle ploughing near a range of rugged mountains in Mexico. The pair are visible at lower left, yoked and pulling a plough behind them. In the background, a rough and undulating mountain range forms a rolling horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a distant, sharp mountain Mexico, situated in the background at center, and the varied landscape before it. In the foreground, some kind of vegetation is visible, while the middle distance comprises of a mostly empty expanse.
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: 1917-4-1210-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: 10.3 × 17.4 cm (4 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)