Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A part of a church stands at left upon an elevation. A gate is shown beneath it. A man in a red coat approaches the gate. View across the valley to snow covered peaks rising over the clouds. Study.
- Landscape study showing a view of the snow-capped volcano known as Cayambe in Ecuador. In the foreground, a figure wearing a red coat stands in front of a gate or shrine in the form of an arch. Beside it at right, a shallow stream winds around the ruddy terrain while a dense grove of green trees is visible across it at center right. At left, a colonial Spanish church is prominently situated on an abrupt hill and overlooks the landscape below it. It features a square belltower with two windows and a entry way with stairs. Visible in the background, beyond rugged hills in the middle distance, the snow-capped peak of Cayambe is seemingly bisected by a long cloud bank in front of it. Above the cloud, the peak has a rosy-golden tinge, while below it, the snow is colored a distinct shade of light blue, indicating that this section of the mountain is in shadow. More clouds are shown at right while the sky itself is a gradient from blue-green to grayish red.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- June 24, 1857
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 16.6 × 29 cm (6 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
