Landscape and Botanical Sketch from the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 24, 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed landscape, botanical, and architectural sketches showing views of a mountain ridge, plants and flowers, and a ruin. Above, the outline of a gently sloping ridge is backdropped by billowing clouds. Below, five studies of a plant with yellow, bell-shaped flowers are visible, with a prominent, detailed flower at lower right. At center, an overgrown architectural ruin is visible.
place: label: place depicted
content: Quito, Ecuador
label: made in
content: Quito, 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: 1917-4-236
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.6 × 25.8 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)