Chimborazo, from the House of Senior Pablo Bustamante, Riobamba, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: July 14, 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 the snow-capped Chimborazo from the house of Pablo Bustamante in Riobamba, Ecuador. In the foreground, a portion of a church is visible at lower right and faces a range of rolling hills in the middle distance at center and left. Dominating the composition in the background at left, the immense snow-capped summit of Chimborazo looms over the scene with numerous ridges and snow fields clearly delineated. At far right, a portion of another distant mountain is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Riobamba, Ecuador
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-256
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 wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35 × 54.9 cm (13 3/4 × 21 5/8 in.)