Sunset over the Ocean, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May 29, 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 the sun setting over the ocean near Guayaquil, Ecuador, amid billowing storm clouds. Ocean waters extend from foreground to horizon. At center, the sun emerges from behind a low lying cloud and sends sun beams across the sky. Large, puffy clouds hang in the sky above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing view of tall palm trees and other dense vegetation along a steep riverbank on the Guayas River in Ecuador. River extends from foreground into the middle distance, where it meets the bank. A wooded hill is visible in background at left.
place: label: made in
content: Guayaquil, 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: 1917-4-804
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.8 × 18.4 cm (4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in.)