Botanical Sketches, South America
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical, architecture, and figure sketches of various scenes in South America, either Colombia or Ecuador. Plantain plants visible in upper left corner, with a tall, slim tree beside at right. In upper right corner, vines climb a palm tree. Below, at center, a sketch of a tile-roofed domestic structure with a man wearing a hat and poncho at right.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-869-c
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 wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 28 cm (8 7/16 in. × 11 in.)