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Landscape with Mount Purese, Colombia
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 6, 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view showing the banks of a deeply cut valley leading toward the back at the left and a plateau at the right, with a village in the middle distance, as the mountain rises in the center, at the rear.
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- Title: Landscape with Mount Purese, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: August 6, 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache on buff-colored paper.
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, with figures and various locations: Clouds / rich green / warm / rock and trees / wheat / wheat bluish / trees / warm / gray rock / grass / rocks / maize / Bushes / rich green, deep / mid green / solitary / very light / beautifu green / rocks projecting / growth scanty / foreground; and at top right: 6 Rock and vegetation / general effect warm/ Purese Aug. 6 - / 53 / 2 salmon color light / 3 grey / 4 wheat rich green / 5 small (over scanty) growth but / rich in green / Broken into masses of / trees bare soil bushes / grass and presenting a variety of green tints; and again at bottom center: the East direction.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30.6 x 46.7 cm (12 1/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. Creation & Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church (Washington, DC: SI Press/NMAA, 1985), p. 80 (illus.), no. 21; p. 32 (illus.), fig. 17.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), 95, b.
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