Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 Search this
Medium:
Graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache on brown wove paper; graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions:
31.3 × 45.5 cm (12 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
Type:
landscapes
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Place depicted:
near Bogota, Colombia
Made in:
near Bogota, Colombia
Date:
June 20–30, 1853
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Landscape sketch showing a distant view of Tequendama Falls near Bogotá in Colombia. Situated in the middle distance at center, the tall and voluminous falls pour cascading water into a steep, cliff-strewn declivity, which fills with kicked-up mist. The river itself descends towards the viewer, obscured by a nearby, heavily wooded hillside before curving into view again at lower left. The slope at center rises to a cliff-strewn mountain with a rounded top at right. Another steep and heavily wooded mountainside frames the view at left.
Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing incomplete outlines of steep and heavily wooded mountainsides at left and right, likely around Tequendama Falls near Bogotá, Colombia.
