Drawing, Snow-Capped Chimborazo from Guanujo, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 12, 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on tan wove 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

32.4 × 54.4 cm (12 3/4 × 21 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: Near Guanojo (near Guaranda) / June 12th /57; a - light spot / b - Much broken brown & green / k - sometimes covered with / snow thinly / 2 - green emerald / 3 - Rich warm green / 4 - Green - / 5 - Soft, smooth golden Brown / 6 - Dark spots / 7 - Rich greenish Brown / 8 - Brown tinge of green / 9 - Beautiful variety of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in streaks / 10 - Trees clambering up sides near top brown; in graphite, center left: 8 8 8 8 / 9 9 8 / 2 8 / 3 4 / B; in graphite, center: k 5 / 8 7 7 6 / 2 / green Brown / 2 2 2 / 4 4 4 2 2 / Brown / earth; in graphite, center right: a a / 5 5 / b 4 6 6 / b a 8 8 / ah ah 10 10 2 / 2 2 2; in graphite, lower left: e grass e / e d / h c e e / i / i / i f / rich green Brown bank g / double sketch / c Rich orange earth / d Blackish with streaks of color and white spots / e - Purplish Brown with patches of grass / f - white yellowish earth / g - more bluish than e / h Greyish yellow / i Rich green

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