Rugged Mountain, 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 distant view of a rugged mountain in Mexico, possibly the Nevado de Toluca. In the foreground, nearby flat hills at left and right frame a view into the cultivated and inhabited valley below, which comprises the middle distance. In the background, an immense, wide mountain stretches across the horizon with several sharp peaks at left and right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a distant view of the Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) across rugged and heavily wooded terrain in Mexico. A cliff or steep slope appears to descend toward the viewer in the foreground, which rises to flat, heavily wooded, and largely indistinct terrain in the middle distance. In the background at center, the conical form of Pico de Orizaba is visible beside three other shorter mountains at right.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-1235-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.)