Pico de Orizaba, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1890–93
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 mountain Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) in Mexico. Devoid of a foreground and middle distance, the composition features the mountain prominently at center. Its sharp peak is snow-capped and its lower flanks dark with rugged ridges. Clouds are loosely rendered at upper right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketches showing two views of trees in Mexico. At right, the lower boughs of a tree are extremely loosely, almost indistinctly rendered. At left and oriented to the left, a palm tree with long fronds is also loosely sketched.
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: 1917-4-1239-a
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: 10.4 × 16.7 cm (4 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.)