Valley with a Bridge and Houses near Guaranda, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 5, 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 a lush valley near Guaranda, Ecuador, with a bridge and houses. In the foreground at left, a rudimentary wood bridge spans a stream in a small gorge, and leads to a path on rocky, grassy terrain in the foreground at right. In the middle distance at center, the same stream curves around a rise in the ground that hosts a house, which is viewed obliquely. Two steep and heavily wooded mountainsides at left and right frame the view as they descend toward center. Rugged, rolling, and partially wooded terrain extends into the background, where a group of three houses is visible atop a hill at upper right. In the background, the summit of Chimborazo is faintly visible, peeking above a rugged mountain range that forms a serrated horizon.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing an outlined and loosely rendered view of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador. The conical mountain looms above an undulating line of foothills.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
label: made in
content: near 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: 1917-4-203
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, brush and white gouache on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 29 × 54.5 cm (11 7/16 × 21 7/16 in.)