Waterfalls in the Chillo Valley, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 26, 1857
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 two waterfalls in the Chillo Valley of Ecuador, near the residence where the artist stayed at the time, the Hacienda Chillo (owned by the Aguirre family). In the foreground, trees, bushes, and other vegetation grow around the edge of a deep, steep declivity in the middle distance at center, into which a waterfall pours, creating a circular pool. The falling water and the mist it kicks up are highlighted in white gouache. In the background, an immense, lush, and steep hill is prominently visible at upper center, descending at left to a cleft through which another cascade falls. This waterfall is extremely tall and an is interrupted at two points on the way down. Lush mountain ridges extend out of frame in the background at left and right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-247
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, brush and white gouache on tan paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 × 54.8 cm (14 × 21 9/16 in.)