Rope Bridge over the Juanambu River, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: August 1853
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 rope bridge in use over the Juanambu River in Colombia. At center, one figure rappels down the single-rope bridge in a seated position. The fixed rope is prominently visible descending from the far side of the river, at center right, to the near side, at lower left. The loose rope used to secure the rider is visible hanging below the fixed rope. Across the bridge, a wood loading platform is built into the steep riverbank, where four men wearing large, brimmed caps stand and sit. Beside them at right, two donkeys graze on the rugged terrain. At lower center, the heads of two other donkeys are visible as they swim across the river, which extends from the foreground to the middle distance. In the foreground at lower left, the bridge is anchored on a pair of posts. In the background at upper center, the rugged, rocky ridge of a nearby mountain looms over the scene, while another steep mountainside rises from the opposite riverbank at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished sketch of the same recto scene, showing just the single rope bridge and an outline of the mountain behind it.
place: label: made in
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: 1917-4-1342
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.3 × 46.3 cm (12 11/16 × 18 1/4 in.)