El Altar from Riobamba, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: July 13, 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 El Altar from Riobamba, Ecuador, with two of the town's buildings included. In the foreground at right, the roof of a multistory building with a terra cotta tiled roof is viewed obliquely. In the middle distance at far left, the facade of a church--possibly the Cathedral of San Pedro--is shown on flat terrain. Behind it, a rugged mountain range is outlined in graphite while the serrated crags that comprise the peaks of El Altar loom above. Rendered in detail with white gouache, the extinct volcano's blown-out caldera form several sharp and snow-capped summits.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
label: made in
content: Riobamba, 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: 1917-4-253
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33.9 × 54.4 cm (13 3/8 × 21 7/16 in.)