Garden at Quito and Mojanda North of Quito, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 24, 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of a garden in Quito, Ecuador, and a mountain known as Mojanda north of the city. In the upper half of the composition, the extinct and collapsed stratovolcano called the Mojanda is visible with its craggy contour and bulging ridges. In the lower half, a wide, A-frame house with two small towers and adjoining walls is shown beside a domestic garden with an arched stone entrance. In the lower left corner, an isolated sketch of a Solomonic, or twisted column is included.
place: label: made in
content: Quito, Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Quito, Ecuador
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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: 1917-4-740
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 off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 17.5 × 25.9 cm (6 7/8 × 10 3/16 in.)