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Ceiba Tree at Mompos, Champan Canoe, Trees, and a Partial Boat, Rio Magdelena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church1853, probably May
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal sheet containing a series of 4 sketches: A house stands beside an enormous tree at Mompos, at top left; a part of a covered canoe, at top right; tree, at bottom left; and a part of a boat, at right.
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- Title: Ceiba Tree at Mompos, Champan Canoe, Trees, and a Partial Boat, Rio Magdelena, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853, probably May
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on gray paper
- Provenance: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Markings: Impressed watermark: cadauceus, flanked by E and B in a shield.Verso: Stamped in ink, at center: Lugt 457d
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at upper center: Ceiba Tree / Mompos; and at upper right: Champan.
- Dimensions: 21.5 x 28.4 cm (8 7/16 x 11 3/16 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), 129.
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