Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a nocturnal view of a smoldering Cotopaxi from the nearby Hacienda San Agustin in Ecuador. In the dimly lit foreground, cattle graze on a green pasture beside a snaking stream at left. The middle distance comprises of a dark, flat landscape that extends to the base of the volcano, at center. The volcano itself is conical in shape and snow-capped. Smoke and red, glowing light emanates from its smoldering crater, as it is not yet fully erupting. At the base of the volcano at right, the twin-peaked mountain known as Cerro Morurco (also called the "Head of the Inca") is visible. A bank of dark grey clouds backdrops the volcano as the sky is a dark shade of blue.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- September 1853
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-1332-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil on tan paperboard mounted to aluminum support
- Dimensions
- 24.4 × 41.4 cm (9 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Ecuador
- place depicted
- Ecuador
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-1332-a
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq486811576-a6ff-419c-aa46-61f0f0468c85
