Drawing, Cotopaxi at Morning from the Panecillo, Quito, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 24, 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache 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

17.6 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, center left: L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Smoke, Brown perp in shadow / Lights opalescent, orange brown (very smoky); upper right: 4th peak Morning; in graphite, center: 2 2 / 3; in graphite, lower center: 2 - Rarified smoke which stretches [struck out: as far as] beyond the horizon color smoky orange (warm) the / upper part opposed to light a shade light than sky lower part shade darker. It is very thin and melts / into the azure in all parts. The smoke forms itself with all sorts of fantastic forms. / 3 - cloud

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