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View of Cotapaxi from the Hacienda San Antonio, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 30, 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view of volcano Cotopaxi shown from behind a ridge.
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- Title: View of Cotapaxi from the Hacienda San Antonio, Ecuador
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: August 30, 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and white gouache on greenish paper
- Paper Support: Greenish paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite across bottom margin: una vista del Volcan, Cotopaxi, de la hacienda/ San Antonio del S[L?]or Jn Ionoss Fenite / Aug 30 /53 / La linea del ECaption: "una vista del Volcan Cotopaxi, de la hacienda/ San Antonio del Sõr J Donoss (?) Finite/ Canon [the name was not written by c.]/ Aug. 30/53 La linea del Equador".
- Exhibitions: Arcata, California - Humboldt State University, Art Department, "75th Anniversary Exhibition, Baron Alexander von Humboldt," January 26, 1989 - February 25, 1989.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12.3 x 19.6 cm (4 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)Mat: 16 x 22 cm (6 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church (Washington, D.C.: SI Press/NMAA, 1985) cat. no. 25, p. 82; fig. 5, p.13 (illus.)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), 32, a.
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