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Drawing. a. Sketch. Tequendama Ralls near Bogota, Colombia. b. View of distant mountain ranges.
Frederic Edwin Church1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Recto: The Falls are visible in the back center framed by tree-covered hills.Verso: Tree tops fill the foreground, ridges rise in the middleground, and high ranges with a central snow-covered peak rise in the background above the clouds.
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- Title: Drawing. a. Sketch. Tequendama Ralls near Bogota, Colombia. b. View of distant mountain ranges.
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and oxidized white gouace on gray paper
- Paper Support: Gray paper
- Markings: Recto: Stamped in ink, at lower left: Lugt 457cVerso: Stamped in ink, at lower center: Lugt 457e
- Inscribed: Recto: Inscribed in graphite, at center right: rock; and at lower right: OverVerso: Inscribed in graphite, at lower right: Over
- Dimensions: Sheet: 31.8 x 44.5 cm (12 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: 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), 73, a.
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