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Drawing, View of a Town, Colombia or Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1853 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

12.3 × 19.8 cm (4 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: 2 - warm / 2 - X dazzling ref - / 3 - delicate brown in- / clining to green . 4 - cold white shade / 5 splendid emerald green / 6 - smoke; in graphite, center: 2 2 2x 2 2 2 / 3 6 3 / 4; in graphite, lower left: Thatch; in graphite, lower center: brown grey; in graphite, lower right: unburnt bricks / brown grey / 5

Cite this object as

Drawing, View of a Town, Colombia or Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; 12.3 × 19.8 cm (4 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-890

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