Street Scene in Popayan, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: August 9, 1853
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 street scene in the Colombian city of Popayan at sunset. In the foreground, at right, the balcony and second story of an adjacent building is visible. A wide street extends from foreground to middle distance with a line of houses at left. Mountains rise in the background, beneath a vibrant, partly cloudy sunset.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of rugged, mountainous terrain devoid of trees that extends to the horizon. A large prominence rises in foreground at right.
place: label: made in
content: Popayan, Colombia
label: place depicted
content: Popayan, Colombia
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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: 1917-4-779-b
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: 12.4 × 19.5 cm (4 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)