Puracé, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: August 6, 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 view of the town in Colombia known as Puracé, and the deeply cut valley atop which it is situated. In the foreground at lower center, a rocky pinnacle is shown covered in vegetation. It rises from near the valley floor, where a river visibly winds through the rugged terrain. The valley walls at left and right are extremely steep and create several "V" formations in the middle distance at left. At center, an area with lots of exposed rock is highlighted in white gouache. Beside this area right, several buildings in the town of Puracé are visible on flat terrain atop the valley rim, which extends to the right. In the background at center left, a large, bulging mountain with two sharp summits is visible (this is not the volcano Puracé, which is out of view at right). Other rolling, mountainous terrain is shown in the background at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Puracé, Colombia
label: made in
content: Puracé, 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: 1917-4-90
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 and white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.5 × 46.6 cm (12 × 18 3/8 in.)