Recollection of a View Overlooking the Valley of Chota, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: August 26-29, 1853
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 Valley of Chota and the mountainous landscape of Ecuador from an elevated point in or near the valley, which is north of Quito. A nearby ridge stretches horiztonally across the foreground, with large, rounded prominence visible at center. In the middle distance at left, the Mira or Chota River is shown winding its way across the valley floor, highlighed in white gouache. In the middle distance at right, a house is visible atop a small hill within extensively mountainous terrain, which recedes into the background. At left, an immense, serrated peak is visible with another snow-capped peak shown in the background at right. The mountain at left may be Cayambe while that at right may be Imbabura (or, the leftmost mountain is Imbabura and the right is Cotacachi). Hazy clouds stretch across the sky above.
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: 1917-4-110
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, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.3 × 45.3 cm (12 5/16 × 17 13/16 in.)