Mixed Sketches with a Coconut Grove and Sugar Mill, 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: Mixed sketches featuring views of a coconut grove, a sugar mill, and diverse vegetation in Ecuador. At center, a vignette of a dense coconut grove and a nearby structure is visible. A group of seemingly aquatic plants are shown at upper left. A small illustration of a sugar mill is included at lower right, while three botanical drawings are visible beside it along the lower margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed architecture sketches showing views and details of tiled houses and a thatched structure resembling a lean-to. Two details of hanging potted plants visible at upper right, beside a drawing of a window with flowers. At left, a study of a second story balcony with potted flowers, viewed from the side, is shown. Beside this, at right, a makeshift thatched structure resembling a lean-to is visible.
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: 1917-4-887
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.1 cm (4 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.)