Approaching Tequendama Falls, 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 the ravine that hosts Tequendama Falls in Colombia. In the foreground, nearby mountainsides steeply descend into the heavily wooded ravine, which zig-zags its way up the rugged terrain to the basin of the falls--barely visible in the middle distance at center. At left and right, the sheer cliffsides that flank Tequendama Falls are visible. At center, just over a wooded ridge, a plume of mist produced by the falls rises upwards. The heavily wooded rim of the basin is visible in the background. At right, a basic sketch of a macaw is included, while another rudimentary sketch of a human figure is visible at lower left. Below it, a detailed sketch of a dog's head and the outline of a crouching cat are included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the loosely rendered outline of a heavily wooded mountain ridge.
place: label: place depicted
content: near Bogotá, Colombia
label: made in
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: 1917-4-265
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 and white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 45.8 × 31.5 cm (18 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)