Botanical Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: May 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 plants along the Magdalena River in Colombia. At upper left, a group of flowers is visible; at upper center, the large leaves of a parasitic vine are shown climbing the trunk of a dead tree; at upper right, a network of dead vines hangs off a tree's branch and trunk; at lower left, a tall vine with leaves hangs from a tree; at lower center, the top of a tree resembling a chestnut is visible; and at lower right, the boughs of a dead tree are sketched in outline.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: made in
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: 1917-4-98
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.)