Cotopaxi at Night, Viewed from the Hacienda San Agustin, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: September 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 nocturnal view of a smoldering Cotopaxi from the nearby Hacienda San Agustin in Ecuador. In the dimly lit foreground, cattle graze on a green pasture beside a snaking stream at left. The middle distance comprises of a dark, flat landscape that extends to the base of the volcano, at center. The volcano itself is conical in shape and snow-capped. Smoke and red, glowing light emanates from its smoldering crater, as it is not yet fully erupting. At the base of the volcano at right, the twin-peaked mountain known as Cerro Morurco (also called the "Head of the Inca") is visible. A bank of dark gray clouds backdrops the volcano as the sky is a dark shade of blue.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-1332-a
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 on tan paperboard mounted to aluminum support
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24.4 × 41.4 cm (9 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.)