Drawing, Valley with a Bridge and Houses, near Guaranda, Ecuador, June 5, Frederic Edwin Church, 5 June 1857

Recto: horizontal view of a valley with a bridge covered stream flowing and cascading from central left foreground around past a house at center and eventually disappearing into the central middleground, while several houses stand upon a hill in the right background beneath mountain ranges which encompass the valley. Verso: unfinished vertical sketch, in the opposite direction, of a high mountain rising over foothills. Date: 5 June 1857. Dimensions: Sheet: 29.1 x 54.8 cm (11 7/16 x 21 9/16 in.). Medium: gouache on gray paper, graphite. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Valley with a Bridge and Houses, near Guaranda, Ecuador, June 5, 1857 (CH 18195785)