Drawing, Cotopaxi at Morning from the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 24, 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite and white gouache on tan 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

17.6 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Smoke, Brown perp in shadow / Lights opalescent, orange brown (very smoky); in graphite, upper right: 4th peak Morning; in graphite, center: 2 2 / 3; in graphite, lower center: 2 - Rarified smoke which stretches [struckout: as far as] beyond the horizon color smoky orange (warm) the / upper part opposed to light a shade light than sky lower part shade darker. It is very thin and melts / into the azure in all parts. The smoke forms itself with all sorts of fantastic forms. / 3 - cloud

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