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Cathedral at Popayan, Columbia
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 5, 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
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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