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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite 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

27.5 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper center: moon / blue / light edge / dark; center left: lightish / cloud; center: light warm / dusky; center right: light / smoky warmish / snow; lower center: Splendid Moon light / El Altar

Cite this object as

Drawing, Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Ecuador; graphite on tan wove paper; 27.5 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-114

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