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Drawing, Popocatépetl from Miraflores, 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 × 17.4 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper margin: Distant Mountains and sky not much / defined but by difference in blue tint; in graphite, center: purplish brown / light brown; center right: white yel / & red distant [?] / lights [?]; in graphite, lower left: snow luminous; in graphite, lower center: Miraflores / April

Cite this object as

Drawing, Popocatépetl from Miraflores, Mexico; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on beige wove paper; 10.2 × 17.4 cm (4 × 6 7/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1047-b

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