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.
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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