Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: July 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural, figural, and landscape sketches of a bamboo bridge in Buga, Colombia, and a young woman carrying a large clay jar on her head at lower left, horizontally oriented. At center, the arched form of the bridge stretches across the composition, supported by an A-frame structure. At right, a man wear a hat descends the bridge. Below, a stream and its steep bank are visible. Faintly rendered clouds comprise background.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: made in
content: Buga and Cartago, 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: 1917-4-53
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.1 × 23.4 cm (6 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)