Sketches of Canoes and Figures, 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: Mixed sketches of canoes and figures in Mexico. At upper right, an empty canoe is viewed in profile, while below it at upper center, a canoe manned with several figures is piloted by a helmsman with a wide brimmed hat. At lower center, another figure, likely a woman, is shown from behind as she is seated on the water's edge. A jar sits on the ground beside her at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a canoe on a lake in Mexico, likely Lake Pátzcuaro or Cuitzeo. In the immediate foreground at lower center, the nearby muddy shore is visible, while just beyond it at left, a figure pilots a canoe, viewed in right profile. The surface of the lake extends across the middle distance until it reaches the mountainous opposite shore in background. Two tall, pointed peaks are visible at far left and upper center.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: 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: 1917-4-1254-b
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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.)