Pencil sketch of a distant mountain range over a low garden with an arched gateway, a building with twin towers, and a slender column.

Garden at Quito and Mojanda, North of Quito, Ecuador

Graphite sketch on off-white paper of a distant mountain range above a low landscape. Foreground shows a small arched gateway, a larger building with arched openings and twin towers, and a slender column at lower left, with handwritten notes reading "Mojanda" and "Garden at Quito."

Artist: Frederic Edwin Church
Date: June 24, 1857
Medium: Graphite on off-white paperboard
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 4000 × 2703 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1857).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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