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Calle de Commerce, Barranquilla, Colombia
Frederic Edwin ChurchMay 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
An oblique view into the street, lined with thatch roofed buildings, with two children and a woman barely visible in the middle ground. Clouds are suggested by the brush strokes above.
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Details
- Title: Calle de Commerce, Barranquilla, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: May 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite, brush and white gouache on cream colored wove paper, darkened to brown and pieced along right edge.
- Provenance: Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: Wove paper
- Markings: Recto: Stamped in ink, at lower left: Museum of the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union Museum [Lugt 457c]Verso: Stamped in ink, at center right: 457d
- Inscribed: Across bottom of sheet in graphite: Barranquilla - May - 53 / Calle de Commerce
- Dimensions: 29.5 x 41.2 cm (11 5/8 x 16 1/4 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), 54.
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