Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857 Finish:Art print reflecting the French colonial perspective

reflecting the French colonial perspective and interests of the period

the map also shows major roads

and painterly nuance back to traditional printmaking in the early 20th century

and collectors moved by the innovations of Romantic art

charged by deep blues

Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857 Finish:Art print reflecting the French colonial perspectiveMount Chimborazo, Ecuador (1857) by Frederic Edwin Church is a sweeping Romantic landscape from one of the foremost painters of the Hudson River School. Painted in 1857, it captures the awe of the Andean world at a moment when American and European audiences were fascinated by distant geographies and the sublime power of nature. Church sets the snow crowned peak as the commanding focal point, its cool, crystalline summit rising beyond rolling, sun