Study of Cotopaxi Erupting
date: label: Date
content: 1857–1862
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 volcano in Ecuador known as Cotopaxi, erupting. The terrain and the cone of the volcano are left unrendered, while only its smoke and the sky are shown in color. The plume of ash and smoke rises in a tight billowing formation at center, before dispersing into an immense cloud at right as it is carried by the wind. In the background, a long bank of white clouds hangs in an otherwise blue sky.
place: label: possibly made in
content: USA
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: 1917-4-786
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 tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 18.9 × 29.7 cm (7 7/16 × 11 11/16 in.)