Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a distant view of the stratovolcano known as Chimborazo in Ecuador. The foreground is a loosely rendered assemblage of green vegetation, and lower center, and brown terrain with grass, at right. Dark brown, rugged foothills stretch across the middle distance and into the background, where the snow-capped peak of Chimborazo looms over the landscape. Ridges and rocky outcroppings are clearly delineated throughout the snowy, pyramidal summit. Above, gray and white puffy clouds hang in an otherwise blue and open sky. Creamy gray ground color visible along the lower margin.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador, South America
label: made in
content: near Guaranda, 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: 1917-4-1296-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34.4 × 52.2 cm (13 9/16 × 20 9/16 in.)