Chimborazo from the Southwest, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 3, 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 expansive view of mountainous region in Ecuador, with Chimborazo looming over the landscape in the distance at left. Wooded slope visible in foreground at right overlooks a rugged valley bounded by tall mountains in the distance.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketches of a plant with blue flowers and an architectural sketch of the porch at the inn in which Church stayed in Guaranda, Ecuador. Porch rectilinear with a stone balustrade and two steps. In the upper half, a plant with long leaves and a billowing canopy is highlighted in white gouache.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador, South American
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-207
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite, brush and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 17.7 × 26.3 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/8 in.)