Cathedral at Popayan, Columbia

Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 5, 1853

Horizontal rectangle showing the dome, steeple and walls of the cathedral seen from the apsidal end, across a garden and house roofs.

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Title: Cathedral at Popayan, Columbia
Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
Date Created: August 5, 1853
Type: Drawing
Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
Medium: Graphite on white paper
Markings: Stamped in ink at lower left: Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Hewitt
Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at lower right: Cathedral at / Popayan / July [stuck out]/ Aug 5. /53
Exhibitions: Yonkers, New York - Hudson River Museum, "To Embrace the Universe: Drawings by Frederic Edwin Church", January 22, 1984 - March 18, 1984.Washington, DC - SITES, "Sketches by Redreic Edwin Church", July 16, 1966 - February 4, 1968. Washington, DC - SAAM [formerly National Collection of Fine Arts], "Frederic Edwin Church', February 9, 1966 - March 13, 1966; Travelled to: Albany, NY - Institute of History and Art, March 30, 1966 - April 30, 1966; New York, NY - Knoedler Galleries, June 1, 1966 - June 30, 1966, cat. # 64.
Dimensions: Sheet: 12.4 x 19.9 cm (4 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans. To Embrace the Universe: Drawings by Frederic Edwin Church (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum , 1984), 35, no. 19, fig. 12.Navas Sanz de Santamaria, Pablo. The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador, April-October 1853 (Bogata, Colombia: Villegas Editores in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008), 93.

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