Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1883–1884
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 the volcano known as Iztaccíhuatl, near Mexico City, Mexico. Famous for its craggy, sprawling peaks, Iztaccíhuatl's ridge is extremely rugged and rocky and covered in fields of snow--which, here, are highlighted in oxidized white gouache that appears black.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketch showing a view of a baking oven in use in Mexico. Situated at center and composed of rectangular bricks, the oven is characterized by its semi-spherical, igloo-like design with a small, arched opening. A chimney situated at its highest point emits black smoke, which drifts to the right in front of the doorway to another nearby building.
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: 1917-4-1222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and oxidized white gouache on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.2 cm (4 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.)