Mountains of the Andes
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unfinished landscape sketch showing a view of mountain ridges in the Andes of Colombia or Ecuador. Rendered only in graphite, an immense, rugged ridge stretches horizontally across the composition, complete with several steep furrows and subsidiary ridges. In the background, another craggy ridge is rendered in brownish purple with a sharp peak at center right. A low cloud is nestled in the ridge at right, while the sky is mostly filled with hazy clouds.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-1322
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on light orange paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.3 × 50.2 cm (11 15/16 × 19 3/4 in.)