Sketches of Chimborazo, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketches showing four views of the stratovolcano known as Chimborazo in Ecuador, fading in and out of sight behind low, fast-moving clouds. A view of the mountain's foothills topped with dynamic banks of puffy clouds stretches across the upper portion of the composition. The clouds and hillsides at right catch the sun's warm, reddish light. Along the right border at lower right are two views separated by dividing lines, which both show portions of Chimborazo and its foothills with abundant cloud cover. At lower center, a clear view of the mountain's rounded peak is shown beneath a cloud in otherwise bright blue skies. The artist's yellow-green ground is visible at left and lower left.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-825
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 29.8 × 44.7 cm (11 3/4 × 17 5/8 in.)