South American Landscape by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857 Size:A3 (297x420mm) Tufts Library

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and road camps

elegant capitals along the base

with the only identified example located at the University of Manchester

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South American Landscape by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857 Size:A3 (297x420mm) Tufts LibrarySouth American Landscape (1857) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the awe and atmosphere of the tropical Americas at the height of the Romantic era. A leading light of the Hudson River School, Church was celebrated for transforming meticulous, on site observation into sweeping, emotionally charged panoramas. In this luminous scene from 1857, he orchestrates a golden, late day sky over verdant foliage and distant mountains, shaping a vision that is