File:Drawing, View Overlooking Chota Valley, Between Ibarra and Puntal, Ecuador, August 1853 (CH 18191571).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, View Overlooking Chota Valley, Between Ibarra and Puntal, Ecuador, August 1853   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
Title
English: Drawing, View Overlooking Chota Valley, Between Ibarra and Puntal, Ecuador, August 1853
Description
English: Bird's eye view of Chota valley, plains, foothills and mountain ranges. A high mountain rises in the left distance, a snow-capped volcano in the right distance.
Date August 1853
date QS:P571,+1853-08-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium graphite, brush and white gouache on cream paper
Dimensions Sheet: 31.1 x 45.1 cm (12 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-110
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Inscriptions Cooper Union stamp(Lugt 457c) struck twice in black, lower left corner; Cooper Union stamp in black(457e), verso, center
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, upper left: recollection of a view overlooking the / Valley of Chota / recollect the splendid warmth of the middleground / the various gradations of the mountain blue The innumerable / diversity of line, of breaks in the mountains of color, the contrast of the rich green of / the fields with the brown of the mountains and the ma[g]nificently grand effect of / the parallel sweep of rays from the sun overwhelming the landscape. / Also the diversity of light and shade as expressed by the shadows of the / mountains of the clouds and the bright glances of yellow light from the / grain fields and white rocks; at top right, a numbered and annotated list, in two columns, of color and other notes corresponding to the numbers on the drawing: left column, 2 - grain yellow / ; 4 - mountains warm/brown with occasionally / a rich greeen or yellow field. / 6- river Chota/8- very distant high / mountians too distant / to distinguish snow 10- broken with hills with level summits some covered with green / Aug 53; right column, 3- narrow plain with rich yellow green / fields very conspicuous / 5- village / 7- very extensive plain which weeps/ up at the right to a mountain. Is covered/with fields, villages, losts of wood houses, etc. / 9- plain; lower right: small river/the plain through which the river Chota ran / was rich in green trees etc.; at upper center: S[arrow pointing up]E; inscribed throughout with numbers.
  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: United States
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