Cotopaxi
Frederic Edwin Church, 1855
A volcano in the Andes, smoking like a warning. A mountain that could end a day, brought north. Ecuador is far. The ash feels close.
About this work
Frederic Edwin Church first painted Cotopaxi, an active volcano and the second-highest peak in Ecuador, after his first trip to South America in 1853, and he returned to it in at least ten paintings over his career. Church, a member of the Hudson River School, made many sketches on the spot during his travels and worked them up into finished canvases in his New York studio. This 1855 view, one of the early pictures in the series, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Other versions are in the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery. The best known, painted in 1862 for the collector James Lenox and now at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows the volcano erupting across a sunrise and has been called the apex of the series; when it was exhibited in 1863 some viewers saw it as a parable of the Civil War.
Sources: Wikipedia · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 8,322 × 5,357 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 55 × 35 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 13 in) · $100 · 412 ppi
Medium (24 × 15 in) · $150 · 347 ppi
Large (36 × 23 in) · $300 · 231 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
FAQ
Where can I buy a framed print of Cotopaxi?
Here. Cotopaxi is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 13 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 15 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 23 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for Cotopaxi?
The file is 8,322 × 5,357 px, so every size is sharp: even Large (36 × 23 in) prints at 231 ppi. Choose Large (36 × 23 in) for a large wall; Small (20 × 13 in) suits a narrower space.
Is it legal to print Cotopaxi?
Yes. Cotopaxi is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
