Chimborazo through Rising Mist and Clouds, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June–July 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 a view of the stratovolcano known as Chimborazo through rising mist and clouds, likely viewed from the vicinity of Guaranda in Ecuador. The middle distance comprises of dimly lit, rolling terrain with numerous hills and fields that is cut off in the distance by a long band of rising mist, articulated in bluish gray tones. A rugged, brown mountain range with rocky summits peeks out above this bank of mist at center and right, while a bank of dark, reddish-brown clouds looms above it. At upper right, the full moon is visible through a window in these clouds. In the background at left, the snow-capped peak of Chimborazo towers over the scene with its twin, rounded peaks. The tan ground is visible along the lower margin in the foreground, which is only rendered in graphite.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador, South America
label: probably made in
content: Guaranda, 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: 1917-4-824
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 off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 34.5 × 53.9 cm (13 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.)