Figure Sketches, Mexico

A sheet of loose graphite sketches showing numerous small standing figures in hats and long garments, arranged across the pale paper with varied poses and scale. Faint lines suggest a distant landscape and a few gestures; a small inscription appears at lower left.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

1883–1884

Medium

Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2515 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum