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A Donkey, Baranquilla, Columbia
Frederic Edwin ChurchMay 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Roughly sketched outline of the head with opened mouth. Shown isolated without backgrounds, in profile, turned toward left. The entire sheet shows the creamy grounding color.
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Details
- Title: A Donkey, Baranquilla, Columbia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: May 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and oil paint on brown paperboard
- Inscribed: Caption, written with brush: "Barranquilla / Burro May 1853"
- Dimensions: Sheet: 31.7 x 44.6 cm (12 1/2 x 17 9/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Navas Sanz de Santamaria, Pablo. The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador, April-October 1853 (Bogata, Colombia: Villegas Editores in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008), 52, b.
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