Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of the ravine that hosts Tequendama Falls in Colombia. In the foreground, nearby mountainsides steeply descend into the heavily wooded ravine, which zig-zags its way up the rugged terrain to the basin of the falls--barely visible in the middle distance at center. At left and right, the sheer cliffsides that flank Tequendama Falls are visible. At center, just over a wooded ridge, a plume of mist produced by the falls rises upwards. The heavily wooded rim of the basin is visible in the background. At right, a basic sketch of a macaw is included, while another rudimentary sketch of a human figure is visible at lower left. Below it, a detailed sketch of a dog's head and the outline of a crouching cat are included.
- Verso: Landscape sketch showing the loosely rendered outline of a heavily wooded mountain ridge.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- June 20-30, 1853
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-265
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite and white gouache on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 45.8 × 31.5 cm (18 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- place depicted
- near Bogotá, Colombia
- made in
- near Bogotá, Colombia
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-265
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee93fe03-d9c2-47c5-97b6-cd3529b35407
