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Drawing, Views of Puresé Volcano, Colombia and Mt. Sincholagua, Ecuador
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 9 and September 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on greenish-gray paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 12.4 x 19.9 cm (4 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
It is 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]. [Monroe 11/16/23: it's "undulations" not "modulatins"]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Views of Puresé Volcano, Colombia and Mt. Sincholagua, Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Ecuador; graphite, brush and white gouache on greenish-gray paper; Sheet: 12.4 x 19.9 cm (4 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-126
