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Sketches from Calé, Colombia

Frederic Edwin ChurchJuly 1853

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Left half: sketch of a part of the town with the landscape background, into which "plain" and "2's" are inscribed. Written on top: "the tops of the mountains are of a superb roseline- and the clouds back (?) above andbefore the mountains are more orange.Bottom:looking East at sunset2 Lower part of the mountainsfine cool gray blue. Open sky....ing (?) to orange or green withreversed rasp more blue, witha snow peak the effect would havebeen superbCali July 53Right half, top, vertically: "A hut"Caption: "Cale - 53". Bottom: sketched coconut palms, written on top: "Cocoanut treeswind"

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  • Title: Sketches from Calé, Colombia
  • Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
  • Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
  • Date Created: July 1853
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
  • Medium: Graphite on white wove paper, folded
  • Paper Support: White wove paper
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 15.7 x 21.9 cm (6 3/16 x 8 5/8 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), 92, b.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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