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 distant view of Tequendama Falls near Bogotá in Colombia. Situated in the middle distance at center, the tall and voluminous falls pour cascading water into a steep, cliff-strewn declivity, which fills with kicked-up mist. The river itself descends towards the viewer, obscured by a nearby, heavily wooded hillside before curving into view again at lower left. The slope at center rises to a cliff-strewn mountain with a rounded top at right. Another steep and heavily wooded mountainside frames the view at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing incomplete outlines of steep and heavily wooded mountainsides at left and right, likely around Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia.
place: label: place depicted
content: near Bogota, Colombia
label: made in
content: near Bogota, 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: 1917-4-264
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, brush and oxidized white gouache on brown wove paper; graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.3 × 45.5 cm (12 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)