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Drawing, Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia, July 1853
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, white gouache on buff wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church and
catalogued by
Rudolph Berliner.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 45.9 x 31.6 cm (18 1/16 x 12 7/16 in.) Mat (Mat): 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamps: lower left: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration
It is inscribed
in graphite, center, right bank: All trees; below: Moss; Moss and trickling/water; at lower right: Beautiful green weedy. . . (?) / 3 Rich ochrous or-ange / 4 more red and less brilliant than 3 / 5 duller than 4 but lighter. All of these rocks are / interspersed with bushes and weeds with the ex- ception / of 3 and 4 / 6 moss-Rocks in the stream generally brown. / Inscribed at lower left: The Fall of Tequendama / near Bogota NG / Height 670 ft.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia, July 1853; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Colombia; graphite, white gouache on buff wove paper; Sheet: 45.9 x 31.6 cm (18 1/16 x 12 7/16 in.) Mat (Mat): 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-260
