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Drawing, Nevado de Toluca, Mexico

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated January 7, 1885 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite. 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 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: warm grey / snow; in graphite, lower left: Toluca; in graphite, lower center: small Mts with trees on flanks / fieds on top; in graphite, verso upper left: Rem - Treed [?] mountain / flanks patched with fields / ploughed dark purp / some points brilliant yel / plains with / rich green; in graphite, verso lower right: Jan 7 /85

Cite this object as

Drawing, Nevado de Toluca, Mexico; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite; 10.2 × 17.3 cm (4 × 6 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1067-b

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