Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing view of the Hill of the Temple of the Sun in Quito, Ecuador, also known as the Panecillo. In foreground, buildings of the city are visible in front of the round hill, which rises in the middle distance. Scant structures are visible atop hill. In background, suggestion of mountainous landscape. In upper left, vignette illustration of hillside with cloud-filled skies.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- June 23, 1857
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on tan paper
- Dimensions
- 17.7 × 25.7 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
