Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part One
date: label: Date
content: May 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmospheric study showing the first part of a panoramic view of the sun setting over the ocean near Ecuador. Water extends from foreground to horizon, where it meets the descending sun. Above, clouds of various colors stretch across an otherwise open sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies showing multiple views of buildings and plants in Ecuador. At center, two buildings are visible, including a church dome at left. Below them, and oppositely oriented, is the top of a palm tree. Along lower margin and in lower left corner, three different plant studies are shown, including a floating plant.
place: label: made in
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: 1917-4-227
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: 10.9 × 18.5 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)