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Views of Puresé Volcano, Colombia and Mt. Sincholagua, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 9 and September 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Details
- Title: Views of Puresé Volcano, Colombia and Mt. Sincholagua, Ecuador
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: August 9 and September 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and white gouache on greenish-gray paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at top: The upper part of the volcano was / concealed by the smoke which was drawn down before the summit and created a / pleasing effect, the vaprous modulatins / etc. of the / top turn into the first part of the book.; and at bottom right to left of the peak: Sinchuglagua [followed by the date].
- Exhibitions: Arcata, CA - Humboldt State University Art Department, 75th Anniversary Exhibition, "Baron Alexander von Humboldt", January 26, 1989 - February 25, 1989.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12.4 x 19.9 cm (4 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. Creation & Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin. Church (Washington, DC: SI Press/SAAM [NMAA] , 1985), 81 (illus.), no. 24.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), 97.
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