Rugged Cliff, 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 a rugged cliff in Mexico. In the foreground, a nearby road extends from the bottom right corner into the middle distance at center left, curving around a mountainside at left. In the middle distance at center, a craggy cliff face is visible with several fissures and vertical ridges. Another indistinct sketch, possibly of a pilaster or other architectural element, is included in the lower left corner.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view in Mexico of two figures working with a device that swings on a pole and is fastened to the boughs of a forked tree--possibly a kind of see-saw, in a sense. Figure at center appears to pull the rope or pole downwards. In the background, a rugged mountain ridge with a flat peak at left forms an undulating horizon.
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: 1917-4-1215
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 light gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.4 cm (4 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)