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Hospital de San Juan de Dios, Honda, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Recto: Horizontal view of a one story windowed building with the ruins of a church attached to its left side among hills and parts of other ruins visible in the right foreground and left background. Verso: Horizontal mountainous landscape sketch.
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Details
- Title: Hospital de San Juan de Dios, Honda, Colombia
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on light gray paper
- Markings: Watermark: Parts of a K and another letter. Similar to 1917-4-104.Recto: Stamped in ink, at lower left: Lugt 457cVerso: Stamped in ink, at lower center: Lugt 457e
- Inscribed: Recto: Inscribed in graphite, at top left: 3; again, at top right: yellow (cream) stucco on brick; and at bottom right: Hospital de San Jaun de Dios - Honda/ 2 Caucho Tree roots trailing to the ground / top cut off.Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at center: 3
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 28.3 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 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), 67.
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