Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a generalized view of mountainous Andean scenery between the cities of Pasto, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador. In the foreground at left, rolling and heavily wooded terrain descends toward a river valley in the lower right corner. A river winds through the valley floor, which is bounded by abrupt slopes that ascend to a flat plateau in the middle distance at right. Rugged, mountainous topography makes up the middle distance at left, and extends into the background where an immense, sharp, and pyramidal mountain rises above the others--likely a volcano. The extremely rugged terrain forms a jagged horizon in the background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- August 26, 1853
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 45.5 cm (9 3/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
