Recollection of a View from a Hill near Cartago, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: July 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 mountains and a valley near Cartago, Colombia. A thatched, straw roof hut is show on a clearly at left, couched in a mass of vegetation that includes a tall palm tree. In the foreground at center, a round and heavily wooded hilltop is prominently visible with what appears to be a road on its right slope. At left and right, other lush hills descend into a valley in the middle distance, where the white buildings of a town are visible at center. The relatively flat terrain of the valley extends into the background, where another rugged mountain range rises into the sky, with a large peak at center right. Above, hazy clouds inhabit the sky. A separate sketch of a woman standing in left profile as she holds a jug upon her head is included at upper right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Cartago, Colombia
label: made in
content: Cartago, 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: 1917-4-75
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, white gouache, and oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 45.7 cm (12 1/16 × 18 in.)