Passing Shower and Rainbow
date: label: Date
content: probably 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a passing showing and a luminous rainbow in the mountains of what is likely South America (Colombia or Ecuador). Two outlined mountain ridges overlap at center, where a rainbow glows in the crux. A lofty and shaded mountain range is visible behind, with multiple sharp peaks. Dark clouds above pour rain over the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Pencil scratches, at right.
place: label: place probably depicted
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: probably made in
content: Colombia or 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: 1917-4-22
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 brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 19.7 cm (4 × 7 3/4 in.)