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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Landscape View near San Miguel de Chimbo, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 3, 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite 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

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

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso center, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper margin: 2 River Cultivated some of the hills crowned with soft dark foliage / great scarcity of tints of green (brownish also) in patchwork, trees following / up the ravines Mountains (lower part) much cut up - in peaks / Near San Miguel de Chimbo / a few Leagues from Guaranda / June 3rd , 57

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape View near San Miguel de Chimbo, Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Ecuador; graphite on tan wove paper; 17.6 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-706-b

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