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Drawing, Mountains across a Plain, Mexico

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April 1892 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on beige wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

10.2 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower center, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper margin: 2 - Dark blue with warm masses / 3 - soft light (sun lit) mixed greenish yel and reddish / brown / 4 - dotted vegetation creeping up mountains a little / green than 3; in graphite, center: 2 / 3 3 / 4 / Light; in graphite, lower center: Sandy tinted foreground - vegetation runs / out near foreground; in graphite, lower right: April - 92 -

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mountains across a Plain, Mexico; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on beige wove paper; 10.2 × 17 cm (4 × 6 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1046-a

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