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Street in Mompos, Colombia
Frederic Edwin ChurchMay 1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view of a receding street flanked by low houses with straw or grass roofs, in the foreground, by stately stone buildings, one of which has a tower with a flat top in the distance. The tops of the steeple and of the roof of the church rise in the left middle distance over trees.
Details
- Title: Street in Mompos, Colombia
- 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
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at various locations: road / grass/ red / path / weed / little purple flowers at top; and the date; and again, at top right: Church etc. at Mampox from the cemetery; and at bottom center: N - E
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30.6 x 42.1 cm (12 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans. To Embrace the Universe (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 1984), no. 12, fig. 8.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), 60.
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