Palm Tree, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama
date: label: Date
content: May 15, 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch showing the trunk and leaves of a palm tree in Colón, Panama (known to Church and other American immigrants as Aspinwall). Situated along the vertical axis at center, the tree is incomplete--it base of its trunk extends out of view, while its fronds are only partially rendered at upper center.
label: Description
content: Recto: Landscape sketch showing a grove of trees in Panama or Ecuador, seemingly viewed from a waterway. Extending across the composition in the middle distance at center, the individual trees congeal into a billowing mass of darkened treetops. White birds are noted throughout their foliage.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colón, Panama
label: made in
content: Colón, Panama
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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: 1917-4-201
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 tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 18.4 × 10.8 cm (7 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)