Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: June 20-30, 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 Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia. In the immediate foreground, a tree stump, ferns, and other vegetation are visible along the lower margin, while beyond them at left, a sheer, rocky cliffside is strewn with bushy foliage. Prominently situated in the middle distance at center, the Falls of Tequendama pour immense quantities of water over their edge, which then kick up a billowing plume of mist that drifts up and to the right. The foaming waters of the Bogotá River cascade over a rocky riverbed as they move towards the foreground at lower right. Beside the Falls, in the middle distance at center right, the rugged, vertical cliff that helped created the falls extends out of view to the right. Dense jungle is visible atop the cliff rim, while a heavily wooded hill is included in the background beneath hazy clouds. Clouds, water, and mist rendered in white gouache.
place: label: made in
content: near Bogotá, Colombia
label: place depicted
content: near Bogotá, Colombia
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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: 1917-4-261
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, white gouache, and oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.5 × 30.3 cm (17 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)