Fort on the Water, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a fort on the water in Colombia or Ecuador. The fort's walled embankment, two structures, and flagpole are visible at center and center right. Palm tree included at extreme right. Water comprises foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches including three botanical sketches and a view of a kingfisher and a house. Upper portion divided into three sections, each hosting a different plant study: a bush with white flowers upper left, a tree with shiny leaves upper center, and a sensitive plant upper right. Below, at left, a small, hasty sketch of a kingfisher bird is visible. At lower right, a multi-storied house with a balcony and a pyramidal thatched roof is shown.
place: 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: 1917-4-806
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.5 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)