San José de Lapas Church with Botanical Sketches, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture, landscape, and botanical sketches showing views of trees and a church in Colombia, possibly along the Magdalena River. At upper left, a small church with a thatched roof and a small tower, known to the artist as Carapata Church or San José de Lapas, is shown obliquely. At upper right, three palm fronds and a tall palm tree are visible. Along the lower margin, a view--likely from a river--of a heavily wooded shoreline is included.
place: label: place possibly depicted
content: Colombia
label: place depicted
content: Colombia
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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: 1917-4-133
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 × 27.1 cm (8 7/16 × 10 11/16 in.)