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Study. Landscape with Mount Puresé. Sketch. Landscape.
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 8, 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Recto: Horizontal view of a valley of a plateau with the volcano seen at right center of background mountains, and small scattered houses at left, center and right middleground.Verso: Horizontal view of two houses in the foreground with more houses in a valley bordered by mountains in the background.
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- Title: Study. Landscape with Mount Puresé. Sketch. Landscape.
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: August 8, 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Recto: Graphite, touched with brush and oxidized white gouache on greenish paperVerso: Graphite, touched with brush and oxidized white gouache on greenish paper
- Markings: Recto: Stamped in ink, at lower right: Lugt 457 cVerso: Stamped in ink, at lower right: Lugt 457 d
- Inscribed: Recto: Inscribed in graphite at various locations with numbers, marks and: grass / brown yellow / brownish / yellowish green / All trees like bushes / Browns, bluish greens / Broken greens / patches of bushes/ scattered bushes / yellow green; again, at upper center: View near Popayan including the famous volcano of Purese / Popayan Aug- //53 / Cauca River Refer to pocket sketch book for / a more accurate sketch of the mountain; again, at upper right: oo A splendid / narrow / streak of sunlight glanced across the land- / scape following the undulations of the / hills and trees in a most delightful manner / At another time the parts marked with back scratches were in deep shadow / Remember the ashes about the crater, the yellow / grass the whitest rocks, the trees below and / the numerous fields; again, upper far right: 2- green 3- yellowish 4- Brown / 5- Bushes 6- Bright yellow ripe corn / 7- Rock 8- scattered bushes and / brown rock and earth / 9 Bushes light green / 10- Rich orange ochre- Break / 11- Green with yellow stalks of - maize / 12- stone wall; again, at lower right: not in the fore ground; and again at bottom center: E [with arrow pointing upward]Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at lower left: Red break in soil.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 32.1 x 42.9 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Carr, Gerald L. Frederic Edwin Church, Catalogue Raisonne of Works of Art at Olana State Historic Site (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 212- 213, fig. 66.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), 19.
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