Views along the Rio Magdalena, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: April–May 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical and landscape sketches showing multiple views of plants and wooded shores along the Magdalena River in Colombia. At upper right, a distant view of a wooded island stretches horizontally. At center left, a dense mass of vegetation and trees forms a vertical, cliff-like wall along the river's edge. Two treetops are shown at center, while a tall tree with a thin trunk and round canopy is included at left. At lower right, the top of a palm tree is incompletely sketched, while four views of palm fronds or another similar plant are included along the lower margin.
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: 1917-4-130
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-blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 28.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)