Drawing, Chimborazo at Sunset, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 13, 1857 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

19.9 × 35.6 cm (7 13/16 in. × 14 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower right: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 10; center: X 3 / 9; center right: 8 4 6 5; lower right: 2 - Dazzling from sun / 3 - Warm laky neutral / 4 - Cooler and darker / 5 - red orange light / 6 - shadow dark blue purple with blue light / 7 - Dark laky brown very dark - / 8 - Dark purple-laky-tender - / 9 - Brown purple - X - Brilliantly lighted with orange; lower left: Chimborazo / July 13th, 57 / 10 - Top gilt with the sun - / sky greyish and warm / 11 - Dark and purple; center left: 7 / 2 / 11

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