Rugged Mountain Peak, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1889
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 rugged mountain peak in Mexico. Dominating the composition at center and isolated from any other forms, the mountain has a sharp, serrated peak with multiple pinnacles. The left side of the mountain and its summit are in shadow, while the rocky ridge on the right flank is brightly lit.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a valley in Mexico bound by overlapping mountain ridges that extend into the distance. Relatively flat, loosely rendered terrain extends across the foreground, while, at left, an extremely steep mountainside rises to the upper left corner. Behind it, a rugged, serrated mountain ridge is prominently visible before quickly descending to center, where overlapping ridges extend into the background. At right, several steep mountainsides are layered on top of each other, leading to a view of a pointed peak in the background at right.
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: 1917-4-1230-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 off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.1 × 17.1 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)