Composition Suggested by Scenery between Pasto, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: August 26, 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 generalized view of mountainous Andean scenery between the cities of Pasto, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador. In the foreground at left, rolling and heavily wooded terrain descends toward a river valley in the lower right corner. A river winds through the valley floor, which is bounded by abrupt slopes that ascend to a flat plateau in the middle distance at right. Rugged, mountainous topography makes up the middle distance at left, and extends into the background where an immense, sharp, and pyramidal mountain rises above the others--likely a volcano. The extremely rugged terrain forms a jagged horizon in the background.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Colombia and Ecuador, 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: 1917-4-100
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 gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.3 × 45.5 cm (9 3/16 × 17 15/16 in.)