Drawing, View of the Mountains near Hacienda Chillo, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 27, 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

35.4 × 54.7 cm (13 15/16 × 21 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center left: 2x 4 / 5 / 6; center: 4 / 2 / 3 3; center right: 2 2x / 5 / green; lower left: 2 Greenish yellow brown / 3 - warm Transparent luminous / 4 - very dark / 5 - shadows generally - delicate purple / All of the outlines are made out in a variety of tints according to the local color / Many rays from the sun - Sky full of broken clouds. / 6 - rich luminous olive green / The mountains at the extreme left fade away until smothered in clouds / -2X- Blue; lower right: Hacienda Chillo June 27th 57-

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