Drawing, View near Popayan with the Volcano Purese, Cauca River, Colombia, August 8, 1853

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 8, 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache. 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

31 × 45.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 18 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower left, L.457c; verso lower right, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper margin: View near Popoyan including the / famous Volcano of Purese / Popoyan Aug 8 -/53 / Cauca River | - Refer to pocket sketch book for / a more accurate sketch of the mountain; upper center: 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 whitish rocks, the trees below and / the numerous fields; upper right: 2 - green 3 - yellowish brown / 5 - Bushes 6 - Bright yellow, ripe corn / 7 - Rock 8 - Scattered bushes and / brown rock and earth / 9 - Bushes and light green / 10 - Rich orange ochre. Break / 11 - Green with yellow stalks of maize / 12 - stone wall; center left: 2 2 2 / Grass brown yellow / brownish / yellowish green; center: 4 4 / 3 3 8 3 / 7; center right: 4 2 / 10 / 8 / All tree-like bushes / Brown bluish greens / 11; lower left: Broken green / yellow green; lower center: patches of bushes yellowish green / [arrow pointing upward; lower right: scattered bushes / Not the foreground; verso center left: Red break in / the soil

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