File:Drawing, View near Popayan including Mount Purese Volcano,Cauca River, Colombia, August 8, 1853 (CH 18202809).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, View near Popayan including Mount Purese Volcano,Cauca River, Colombia, August 8, 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 near Popayan including Mount Purese Volcano,Cauca River, Colombia, August 8, 1853
Description
English: Recto: Horizontal view of a valley of a plateau with the volcano seen at right center of background mountains, and small scattered houses at left, center and right middleground. Verso: Horizontal view of two houses in the foreground with more houses in a valley bordered by mountains in the background.
Date 8 August 1853
date QS:P571,+1853-08-08T00:00:00Z/11
Medium

recto: graphite, touched with brush and oxidized white gouache on greenish paper

verso: graphite, touched with brush and oxidized white gouache on greenish paper
Dimensions Sheet: 32.1 x 42.9 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-91
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Inscriptions Recto: Stamped in ink, at lower right: Lugt 457 c Verso: Stamped in ink, at lower right: Lugt 457 d
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Recto: Inscribed in graphite at various locations with numbers, marks and: grass / brown yellow / brownish / yellowish green / All trees like bushes / Browns, bluish greens / Broken greens / patches of bushes/ scattered bushes / yellow green; again, at upper center: View near Popayan including the famous volcano of Purese / Popayan Aug- //53 / Cauca River Refer to pocket sketch book for / a more accurate sketch of the mountain; again, at upper right: oo A splendid / narrow / streak of sunlight glanced across the land- / scape following the undulations of the / hills and trees in a most delightful manner / At another time the parts marked with back scratches were in deep shadow / Remember the ashes about the crater, the yellow / grass the whitest rocks, the trees below and / the numerous fields; again, upper far right: 2- green 3- yellowish 4- Brown / 5- Bushes 6- Bright yellow ripe corn / 7- Rock 8- scattered bushes and / brown rock and earth / 9 Bushes light green / 10- Rich orange ochre- Break / 11- Green with yellow stalks of - maize / 12- stone wall; again, at lower right: not in the fore ground; and again at bottom center: E [with arrow pointing upward]

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at lower left: Red break in soil.

  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: Colombia
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