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Sketches from South America, probably from Colombia. Botanical sketches. A house.
Frederic Edwin Church1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view of containing trees on the bank of a river at top left; tree tops at bottom left; a house beneath trees at bottom center; and bushes with inscribed figures at bottom right.
Details
- Title: Sketches from South America, probably from Colombia. Botanical sketches. A house.
- 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 and F.
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at lower left corner: Very beautiful brownish/ green foliage, feathery. Stems and trunk very light. The/ ramifications conspicuous hearly to the ends of the twigs; and again, at lower right: 2- green hanging veg / etation resembles a species / of parasite / 3 earthy rock.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 28.2 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), 58, a.
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