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Drawing, Sunset over a Mountainous Landscape, Ecuador

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

10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower right, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 2 Dazzling / 3 - gold / 4 - orange grey / 5 warm glow / cattle; in graphite, upper center: open / Dark grey neut; in graphite, upper right: 6 - golden blue / smoky warm lights / 7 - delicate haze / 8 - smoky orange / 9 - greyer and less lum / 10 - pinky ocre light; in graphite, center: Dark neutral / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5; in graphite, center right: open / 6 / 6 / faded; in graphite, lower left: 9 8 / grey & silver; in graphite, lower center: 7 / Dark green / 10 / [struckout: grey & silver]; in graphite, lower right: grey and silver; in graphite, verso upper left: Raft; in graphite, verso upper right: Canoe with plantains / light green and yellow; in graphite, verso lower left: Hanging chicken coops

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sunset over a Mountainous Landscape, Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 10.8 × 18.5 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-810

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