Village on the Río Magdalena, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: May 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unfinished landscape sketch showing a view of a village on the Magdalena River in Colombia, and the surrounding terrain. In the foreground, the river's shallow waters and muddy shoreline are rendered only in graphite, encompassing the composition's entire lower half. In the middle distance at center, oil paint articulates a brown shore that leads to a grassy, heavily wooded bank. A thatched hut stands on stilts in a clearing at center, with the roofs of other structures are visible beside it at left. At far left, the wide Magdalena River is visible, rendered in oil. Rolling, lush terrain extends to a distant mountain range in the background, which forms a softly undulating horizon. The sky above is pink or blue as if twilight or dawn.
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: 1917-4-1318
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.4 × 47.2 cm (11 15/16 × 18 9/16 in.)