Object Timeline

1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2024

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Village on a Riverbank, Colombia or Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1853 or 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white 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

10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: 2 - Splendid low toned orange / 3 - [m--] smoky / 4 - yellow cooler tending / to blue; in graphite, center left: 4 / 3; in graphite, center: 5 / brownish clouds / grey / pinky orange / 2; in graphite, center right: reddish orange; in graphite, lower left: slag; in graphite, lower center: brown

Cite this object as

Drawing, Village on a Riverbank, Colombia or Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; 10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-809

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

For higher resolution or commercial use contact ArtResource.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18201955/ |title=Drawing, Village on a Riverbank, Colombia or Ecuador |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=6 February 2025 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>