Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Snowpeaks Tolima and Ruiz, from the Vicinity of Tequendama Falls, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
June 20-30, 1853
- Medium
- Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 30.1 × 45.8 cm (11 7/8 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Colombia
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Landscape sketch showing a view of the volcanoes Tolima and Ruiz from above Tequendama Falls in Colombia. In the immediate foreground, nearby treetops and a single dead tree are visible along the lower margin. In the middle distance at lower center, the cliffs surrounding Tequendama Falls are highlighted in white gouache, while the falls themselves are out of view at lower left. At center, a heavily wooded and rounded hilltop is visible, while at right, a rugged mountain ridge descends toward the center. Other craggy peaks frame the view in the middle distance at far left. In the background at center, the snow-capped volcanoes known as Tolima (left) and Ruiz (right) create bulges on an otherwise flat horizon.
