Botanical Sketch, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May–August 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing a magnified view of what appears to be a banana plant in Ecuador. Crux of the plant's boughs visible at center, with stems and leaves radiating in all directions. At upper center, a new leaf begins to unfurl itself.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch from Ecuador showing views of five different plants, including vines, flowers, and leaves. The drawing is divided into six rectilinear sections, each hosting its own plant study, except for the bottom right section which has only an inscription.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
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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: 1917-4-883
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.5 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)