El Altar from Riobamba, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: September 14-17, 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a distant view of the dormant volcano El Altar from the nearby city of Riobamba, Ecuador. In the foreground, several trees reside in relatively flat terrain that extends to the middle distance, where it meets a mountain ridge that rises to the right. Behind this ridge, the sharp peaks of El Altar are visible. The rising sun floats just above the jagged mountain, partially obscured by clouds or mist.
place: label: made in
content: Riobamba, Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-776-b
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 white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 19.7 cm (4 13/16 × 7 3/4 in.)