Figures and a 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: Figure and landscape sketches showing figures and a mountain in Mexico. At right, two figures--one facing forward and one viewed from the side--wear wide-brimmed hats and conceal their faces and upper bodies with ponchos and bandanas. At lower center, a pair of male figures--also wearing brimmed hats and ponchos--is shown from behind. At lower left, another, similar male figure is viewed from the rear, beside the upper body of a woman who carries a baby. At upper left, the outline of a steep mountain with a sharp peak is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a distanced view of the Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) and nearby mountains, likely from the vicinity of the town of Orizaba. Flat, largely indistinct terrain extends from the foreground and into the middle distance, where a low range of foothills is visible. Above them, two sharp peaks loom over the scene--the rearmost one at upper center being the Pico de Orizaba. Hazy clouds obscure the view of the mountains at center and upper right.
place: label: made in
content: Orizaba, Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Orizaba, 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: 1917-4-1249
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 × 17.2 cm (4 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)