Botanical Sketches with a Church, 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 and architecture sketches showing views of trees, other vegetation, and a church along the Magdalena River in Colombia. At upper center, two dark sketches of palm trees are visible beside a deciduous tree at upper left. Two groups of plantain and orange trees are shown growing beside each other at upper right. Three other palm trees are included at center and center left. At center right, a small gabled church with a rudimentary tower is included, while below it, a plant resembling a plam is shown beside the river's edge.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-95
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
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 × 27.7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)