Drawing, Recollection of a View Overlooking the Valley of Chota, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 26-29, 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache 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

31.3 × 45.3 cm (12 5/16 × 17 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c; in black ink, verso center, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Recollection of a view overlooking the / Valley of Chota / Recollect the splendid warmth of the middle ground / The various gradations of the mountain blue. The innumerable / diversity of line, of breaks in the mountains, of color, the contrast of the rich green of / the fields with the brown of the mountains and the ma[g]nificently grand effect of / the parallel sweep of rays from the sun – overwhelming the landscape. / Also the diversity of light and shade as expressed by the shadows of the / mountains of the clouds and the bright glances of yellow light from the / grain fields and white rocks; in graphite, upper center: S [arrow pointing up] E / 2 – Grain – yellow / 4 – Mountains warm / brown with occasionally / a rich green or yellow / field. / 6 – River, Chota / 8 – Very distant high / mountains too distant / to distinguish snow / 10 – Broken into hills with level summits some covered with green; in graphite, upper right: 3 - narrow plain with rich yellow green / fields very conspicuous / 5 – village / 7 – very extensive plain which sweeps / up at the right to a mountain. Is covered / with fields, villages, bits of wood, houses, &c. / 9 – Plain / Aug – 53 Recollection of a scene / between Ibarro & Puntal; in graphite, center: 4 / 2 2 9 / 4 4 2 4 7 7 / 5 3 10 10; in graphite, lower right: small river / The plain through which the river Chota ran / was rich in green, Trees &c.

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