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Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia
Frederic Edwin ChurchJuly 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A detailed study of a bamboo bridge is shown in the center of the sheet. The bridge is arched above a stream and supported by struts which are joined at the center above the walkway. A figure of a man is shown walking at right. An additional sketch, of a girl seen from the back, is placed vertically at lower left.
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- Title: Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: July 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on cream-colored wove paper
- Provenance: Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: Wove paper
- Markings: Recto: Stamped in ink, at center left: Museum of the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union Museum [Lugt 457c]Verso: Stamped in ink, at center: Museum of the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union Museum [Lugt 457d] and [Lugt 457e]
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at center: Bank / stream; again, at lower right: -Buga- /Bamboo Bridge; and at lower left: Girl carrying a jar / Cartago
- Dimensions: 16.2 x 23.4 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Pablo Navas Sanz de Santamaria, 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), 91, a; 161.
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