Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Unfinished landscape sketch showing a view of the volcano known as Chimborazo in Ecuador. Dominating the composition at center, the mountain's rugged peak is permanently snow-capped and generally rounded in shape, with a sharp ridge with shaded declivities at right. It's lower slopes are snowless. Sky above is a muted shade of blue. The foreground and middle distance are only outlined in graphite, and suggest that we are viewing Chimborazo from a mountain pass. A large rock appears to jut out of the ground at center left.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- July 1857
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 31.7 × 44.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
