Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, 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: Figure sketches of grazing llamas and a landscape sketch showing a view of the moon over the dormant volcano, El Altar, in Ecuador. A pair of succeeding hills are visible in the foreground and lead up to the wide form of El Altar at center. Mountain ridge extends to the left and right, with a prominent, snowy peak in the distance at left. In the sky, the moon illuminates several clouds in a light glow. In a separate section above, eleven studies of llamas in various poses and in various states of completion. Most are viewed in profile and lack either legs or a head.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
label: made in
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: 1917-4-114
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 on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)