Markings: Watermark: [JOH] ANNOTRecto: Stamped in ink, at lower left: Lugt 457cVerso: Stamped in ink, at lower center: Lugt 457d
Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at upper center: Parrots; again, at center left: 2 - dead leaves of a / Brownish straw color / 3 Large bunches / of brilliant / scarlet berries / Coroso; again, at left center: This tree / grows in many / beautiful forms / often resembling / the Elm, with a / multiplicity of / branches which / are more ir-regular / than the Elm I - / Branches at top / vandyke brown; again, at center right: Dark green main / rib of leaf light green / - bush -; again, at lower left: 2 whitish grey green very / distinct from the mass of / green - in clustered / masses; again, at lower center: 2 dead / About 15 ft / high leaves very / large; again, at lower right: The same / Under side / of leaf very strongly / ribbed in - relief; and again, at bottom right: Boquia N. Granada / July - I 53
Dimensions: Sheet: 31.8 x 46.7 cm (12 1/2 x 18 3/8 in.)
Bibliography: Huntington, David L. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, Vision of an Amerian Era (New York, NY: George Braziller, 1966), p. 26 (illus.)Carr, Gerald L. Frederic Edwin Church: Catalogue Raisonne of Works of Art at Olana State Historic Site (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. XVII. [? 2007]
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