Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 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 view of elevated, rugged region around Pichincha volcano, near Quito, Ecuador. A grassy hillside with ruinous foundation of a column comprise foreground. Deep valley separates foreground from middle distance, where they elevated plain, or Paramo, of the Andes is visible. In background, the sharp peaks of Pichinca rise behind the elevated plain.
place: label: made in
content: Quito, 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: 1917-4-217
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 paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 17.6 × 25.7 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)