Drawing, Looking East at Sunset, Cali, Colombia

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 31, 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

15 × 22 cm (5 7/8 × 8 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: The tops of the / Mountains are of a splendid rosy / blue - and the clouds [---] about and / before the mountains more orange; in graphite, upper right: Cali - 53 / cocoanut trees / - wind -; in graphite, lower left: Looking East at Sunset / 2 - lower part of the mountains / fine cool grey blue. Open sky / tending to orange or green with / reversed rasp more blue with / a snow peak the effect would have / been superb / Cali July - 53 -

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