Water Carriers on the Magdalena, Barranquilla, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: May 2, 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of nine water carriers and their donkeys wading in waters at the mouth of the Magdalena River. The figures occupy the foreground, while a canoe with four passengers travels along the river beyond them at left. Visible in the middle distance, a wooded bank contains fenced coconut grove, a house, and two figures at right. Scattered, wispy clouds occupy the sky. At upper left, a woman's head with a water barrel is visible.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: made in
content: Barranquilla, 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: 1917-4-62
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, brush and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.)