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Drawing, Landscape near Guayaquil, Ecuador, Part One

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated May 21, 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite. 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

10.9 × 18.6 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 6 blurred 7 mottled with lake 8 very dark / 9 - grey purple silvery openings above; in graphite, upper right: 2 - very bright gold / 3 - more silver and blue / 4 - grey purple shadow / 5 - splendid crimson light in streaks; in graphite, center: 9 / 6 / 5 / 7 3 8 2 8 3 4; in graphite, center left: pure; in graphite, lower right: golden grey yel ochre very light; in graphite, verso lower right: Bamboo

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape near Guayaquil, Ecuador, Part One; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 10.9 × 18.6 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-822

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