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Drawing. Sketches. The village Guarumo, probably in Colombia.

Frederic Edwin Church1853, probably May

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal view on upper part of the sheet of a steep river bank with a church, houses, many palms and a single boat filling the foreground with hill range in the background, and on the lower part of the sheet a tree top is visible at bottom center and a palm rises over bushes and a tree at bottom right. in the background, a boat is in the foreground. Figures and mark inscribed, explained bottom left: "2 Beautiful sloping band overgrown / with grassy herbage / x Church white and also one or two / houses. Many cocoanuts presenting / a soft drooping effect of foliage / 3 distant hill." Bottom right, top of a tree and a palm rising over bushes and a tree. Place name top right: "Guarumo-village."

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  • Title: Drawing. Sketches. The village Guarumo, probably in 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 light gray paper
  • Paper Support: Light gray paper similar to 1917-4-68 without the watermark.
  • Markings: Verso: Stamped in ink, at lower center: Lugt 457d
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite with numbers and an x mark at various locations, and at top right: Guarumo - village; and again, at lower left: 2- Beautiful sloping band overgrown / with grassy herbage / x Church white and also one or two / houses. Many Cocoanuts presenting / a soft drooping effect of foliage / 3- distant hill.
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 29.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 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), 62, b.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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