Views along the 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: Botanical, landscape, and figure sketches showing views along the Magdalena River in Colombia. Along the upper margin, a sketch depicts shallow, marshy terrain with semi-submerged grass somewhere along the Magdalena River. At right and lower center, three views of trees are included: the two at right both have tall, thin trunks and wide, umbrella-like canopies while the tree at lower center appears to be enveloped in vines. At left, two sketches of manned rafts are included. The raft above hosts two people--one at the bow and another at the stern--while the raft below carries one figure, a donkey, and a variety of secured goods.
label: Description
content: Verso: Rough sketches of the mechanism of a ferry.
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: 1917-4-70
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 × 26.6 cm (8 7/16 × 10 1/2 in.)