Botanical Sketches, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: July 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketches from Colombia showing views of bamboo, arum, a tree branch, and other details. At upper left, two trees are shown covered in vines and other parasitic plants. At upper center, a grove of bamboo plants are lightly sketched, with one plant prominently visible. At upper right, a group of leaves are included above a bamboo plant and another overgrown tree at lower right. The leaves of an arum plant are visible at lower center, while a tree branch with vines is included at lower left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of a high elevation plain in Colombia surrounded by mountains. A range of rugged hills stretches across the foreground, while the flat plain occupies the middle distance. In the background, a range of sharp mountains forms a rolling horizon.
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: 1917-4-85
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 off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 20 cm (4 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)