Figure with an Oxcart and a Cypress Tree, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: January 9, 1885
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketches from Mexico showing, at left, a view of a figure with a hat and poncho standing in front of an oxcart that leans forward with yoked oxen, and at right, a dark cypress tree with drooping branches.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a panoramic view of Lake Cuitzeo in Mexico. In the foreground, nearby reeds and shrubs are visible along the shoreline. The surface of the lake extends from the foreground into the background, where rolling, mountainous terrain stretches across the opposite shore.
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: 1917-4-1066
objectType: 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.)