page_title: The Heart of the Andes
section_title: Reproduction
hierarchical_section_title: The Heart of the Andes / Exhibition / Reproduction
caption_attribution_description: likely made as a reference for engraving in England
context_page_description: The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church.
  At more than five feet high and almost ten feet wide, it depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on two occasions. Its exhibition in 1859 was a sensation, establishing Church as the foremost landscape painter in the United States.
  The painting has been in the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1909, and is among Church's most renowned works.
context_section_description: While the painting was in London, Church's agent arranged to have an engraving of it made by Charles Day & Son, which would allow for broad distribution of reproductions and hence more income. Sometime during this period a watercolor copy of The Heart of the Andes was made. It is not certain who painted the copy, but Church very likely is not the artist; the engraver Richard Woodman or one of his sons has been proposed. The watercolor is now presumed to have originated in Britain and been made for the use of the engraver, William Forrest of Edinburgh.  The watercolor is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
caption: A watercolor copy prepared for the engraver's use, 1859–1860. 52.1 × 94 cm. National Gallery of Art
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