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Sketches from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia. Botanical sketches. A church. Similar to -103.
Frederic Edwin ChurchMay 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Details
- Title: Sketches from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia. Botanical sketches. A church. Similar to -103.
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: May 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on gray paper
- Markings: Watermark: Impressed with Caduceus, flanked by E and B in shield.
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at top right: organges and plantans; at center: Palm / Coco / C[oco] / Church; at bottom: W Plant by the water - resembles the palm
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 27.6 cm (8 7/16 x 10 7/8 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), 28, b.
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