South American Landscape
date: label: Date
content: 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 a town in the mountains of Colombia or Ecuador. In the foreground at left, a stone bridge ornamented with terra cotta tiles traverses a stream that extends to the right along the lower margin. The stream's banks are muddy and lightly wooded. The numerous buildings of a town are shown across a grassy pasture at center right. A church with two belltowers is discernable among the other buildings made up of white stucco walls and red terra cotta roof tiles. Foothills rise behind the town and ascend to a range of rugged and misty mountains that grow faint as the extend into the distance. The sky above is warm and hazy.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: South America
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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: 1917-4-388
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 31.8 × 42.9 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/8 in.)