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Sketches from Colombia: Trees and Rivercraft (Champans)
Frederic Edwin Church1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view with a river bank at top; two trees at center left; a covered canoe at center right; a covered canoe with at least 13 men and probably a woman it in, and 8 of the men carry long poles while two men row.
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- Title: Sketches from Colombia: Trees and Rivercraft (Champans)
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on gray paper
- Markings: Watermark: Parts of the letters K F
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at top: There are oftentimes / beautiful bays doted with / Islands or Islets and / very rich with vegi[sic]tation & / vines large leaved plants & etc.; at center left: These trees / resemble much / the yellow pine; at bottom right: Champans - these boats / are hauled along by the shore following the windings of the bank. The bogas or boatmen have no other clothing than an apron around or from their waist and / generaly [sic] straw hats. The helmsman and others in the stern clad in white fancy cloaks / etc.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 27.9 cm (8 7/16 x 11 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, a.
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