Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: June 20-30, 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 precipitous Tequendama Falls and the Bogotá River cascading through a rocky and steep gorge near Bogotá, Colombia. Along the composition's vertical axis in the foreground and middle distance, white water bounces and spills over large boulders in a rocky riverbed as the river flows toward the viewer. Trees and plants grow from rocks and boulders at left and right of the rushing water. In the middle distance at center, the falls themselves are visible, pouring immense quantities of water into the basin below, which is filled with white, semi-transparent mist. The sheer, vertical cliffs that make the cascade possible extend outwards from it to the left and right, and are rimmed in dense vegetation. A miniscule figure can be seen standing atop a large rock at the base of the falls at center left.
place: label: place depicted
content: near Bogotá, Colombia
label: made in
content: near Bogotá, 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: 1917-4-260
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: 46.6 × 31.7 cm (18 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)