Pichincha at Morning, Quito, Ecuador, Graphite Sketch by Frederic Edwin Church

A faint graphite sketch on pale paper shows a broad view of rolling hills and distant peaks under a sparse sky. A small stone structure sits near the lower center, and handwritten labels along the bottom edge read "Pichincha" and "from the hill of the temple of the sun."

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

June 1857

Medium

Graphite, brush and white gouache on paperboard

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2721 px

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