From the Hill of San Juan, Quito, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing view of rugged Andean mountains around a high elevation plain, as seen from the Hill of San Juan in Quito, Ecuador. In middle distance, a flat plain stretches along the floor of a valley, bounded by sharp hills at right. In the distance, increasingly tall and rugged mountains extend to the horizon.
place: label: place depicted
content: Quito, Ecuador
label: made in
content: Quito, 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: 1917-4-869-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 28.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/4 in.)