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Church at Tuquerres, Colombia
Frederic Edwin ChurchAugust 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Recto: Horizontal view of the church, shown slightly obliquely from the front, with a projecting portico and three bells hanging in the steeple. House at sides and in the rear.Verso: Horizontal view looking toward a mountain range in the rear.
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- Title: Church at Tuquerres, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: August 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on white wove paper
- Provenance: Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: White wove paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on recto in graphite, at top right: General color dirty yellowish white / 2 tiled - Plastering deficient / at corners; with copied caption at bottom right: Church at Tuquerres / Aug [ust]Inscribed on verso in graphite: rock / trees; Belongs with 772, B, obverse.
- Exhibitions: Washington,DC - SITES, "Sketches by Frederic Edwin Church", July 16, 1966 - February 4, 1968.Washington, DC - SAAM [formerly National Collection of Fine Arts], "Frederic Edwin Church," February 9, 1966 - March 13, 1966; Travelled to Albany, NY - Institute of History and Art, March 30, 1966 - April 30, 1966; New York, NY - Knoedler Galleries, June 1, 1966 - June 30, 1966; no. 64.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12.4 x 20.2 cm (4 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans. To Embrace the Universe (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 1984), no. 20, fig. 13.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), 101.
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