Sangay Erupting, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: 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 distant view of the Ecuadorian volcano, Sangay, erupting. The foreground consists of dark brown, rugged terrain that ascends steeply nearly the left and right margins. A similarly dark, rocky, and rugged landscape extends through the middle distance to the base of the conical volcano. The volcano itself is somewhat truncated in form with a serrated crater rim and dark furrows running down its slope. Simultaneously dark and light plumes of smoke billow out the crater and drift to the left as they ascend. The dark smoke plumes catch the orange-red light of the setting sun while the whitish-gray plume behind it resembles a cumulonimbus cloud. The sky is clear and blue, aside from the dispersed brown ash that darkens it.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador, South America
label: place depicted
content: Ecuador, South America
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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: 1917-4-402
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, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.8 × 36.4 cm (9 × 14 5/16 in.)