View near Popayan with the Volcano Purese, Cauca River, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: August 8, 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 of terrain near Popoyan, Colombia, including the volcano Purese. A gently sloping hillside is visible in the foreground with grass and bushes. In middle distance, a river or stream concealed by foliage winds its way through a shallow, wooded valley. Cattle and a fence visible between foreground and middle distance at center. Domestic structures included atop hill at left and nestled on a hillside at center. Beyond, a rugged landscape leads to Purese at center right, whose snow-capped peak spews steam into the sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Partial landscape sketch at center left showing a view of a domestic structure in the foreground, a plain the middle distance, and mountains in the background.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: made in
content: near Popayan, 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: 1917-4-91
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, brush and oxidized white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 31 × 45.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 18 in.)