Drawing, Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 20-30, 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite 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

46.6 × 31.7 cm (18 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c; in brown ink, verso center, L.457e; in black ink, verso lower right, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 3 4 4 5 5; in graphite, center: 2 / moss / 6 6 6 6 / reddish / 6 / 6 / 6 / moss; in graphite, center right: All Trees / moss & trickling water; in graphite, lower left: The Fall of Tequendama / near Bogotá NG. / Height 670 . ft; in graphite, lower right: 2 – Beautiful Green weedy [knots?] / 3 – Rich Ochrous orange / 4 – more red and less brilliant than 3 / 5 – duller than 4 but lighter. All of these rocks are / interspersed with bushes & weeds with the exception / of 3 & 4 / 6 – moss – Rocks in the stream generally brown

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