House beneath a Ceiba Tree and Champan Canoes, Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: May 12 or 13, 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three sketches of champan canoes and a house under a large ceiba tree in the city now called Santa Cruz de Mompox in Colombia. At upper and lower right, two partial sketches of a covered canoe called a champan are visible. At upper left, a view of a house beneath the billowing and voluminous canopy of a ceiba tree is rendered with limited detail.
place: label: made in
content: Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
label: place depicted
content: Santa Cruz de Mompox, 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: 1917-4-853
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-green laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 28.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)