Mixed Sketches with a Champan, 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: Mixed sketches showing figures and views along the Magadalena River in Colombia. At center, a river craft known as a champan is rendered in some detail, docked along the heavily wooded riverbank of the Magdalena. Long and narrow in form, the champan includes an arched, covered area through its middle, almost like a plane's fuselage. A fire burns in an on-board hearth known as a fogon and illuminates the two figures seated on the boat's bow and atop its arched covering. Three separate sketches are included below the champan scene: a woman wearing a dress and a hat at left, a lush, vine-covered tree at center, and a thatched hut behind a sparse fence and beside a palm tree at right.
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: 1917-4-67
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 27.9 cm (8 7/16 × 11 in.)