South American Volcano
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 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 a snow-capped volcano in the Andes Mountains of South America. Visible beyond a short range of gently rolling hills, the mountain has an extremely rugged and sharp peak that abruptly rises into the sky. Dark patches of rock stand out against the otherwise snow-strewn peak.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador, South America
label: place depicted
content: Colombia or 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: 1917-4-1277-c
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 light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.3 × 45.6 cm (11 1/8 × 17 15/16 in.)