# Snowpeaks Tolima and Ruiz, from the Vicinity of Tequendama Falls, Colombia

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23402)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d718ed1d7e0197e82a784fc262e088f8.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.