Rock on a Hilltop, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of a large boulder on a hill in Mexico. Situated at center left, the boulder is roughly cubic in form and sits on the edge of steep hill. In the background at left, a rugged mountain range is loosely rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the mountain known as Peña de Bernal, from San Juan del Rio, Mexico. Situated in the middle distance at center right, the rocky monolith that comprises Peña de Bernal prominently juts above the surrounding landscape. A dark, shaded hill is visible in front of it at right, while rugged mountain ranges flank it at left and 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: 1917-4-1232-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: 10.2 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)