Botanical Sketches with Flying Parrots, Boquia, 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: Botanical sketch from Colombia showing views of six different plants and trees, with flying parrots at top. In upper and lower right, two different broad-leafed plants with thin stems are visible. Similar plant beside them, lower center. Two trees visible at center left--a palm at left and another with many boughs beside at right. Below, at lower left, study of a bush with flowers.
place: label: place depicted
content: Boquia, Colombia
label: made in
content: Boquia, 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: 1917-4-878
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.8 × 40.8 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.)