Botanical sketches with a Monkey, Colombia or Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May–October 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketches showing views of a trees and vegetation in Colombia or Ecuador, with a depiction of a monkey climbing down a tree branch at lower left. At upper left, a tree is shown covered in parasitic vines; at upper center, the top of a grove of bamboo trees is visible; at upper right, a view of a heavily wooded river bank is included; two dark sketches of trees heavily wreathed in vines and other vegetation are situated at center and center left; at center right, a treetop with clusters of white flowers is shown; at lower right, two details of palm fronds are shown while at lower right, a tree with extremely dense leaves is visible; and finally, at lower left, a silhouette of a monkey climbing down a tree is included.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-136
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 28.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)