Figure and Landscape Sketches, 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: Figure and landscape sketches from Mexico showing, at upper left, the torso of a headless figure wearing a poncho; at upper right, three figures wearing hats and draped clothing leaning on the banister of a bridge, looking over its edge; at lower right, a figure covered in draped clothing viewed from behind; and at center, a fire illuminating nearby trees, or putting off clouds of smoke.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of a thatched hut and a portion of a mountainous landscape in Mexico. At left and oriented to the left, a thatched hut with a tall, conical roof is sketched in some detail. The outline of a figure wearing a hat is included beside it at left. Along the right margin, a fragment of a panoramic view showing an extensive, rugged, and mountainous landscape is included.
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: 1917-4-1244
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 16.9 cm (4 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)