Bamboo Sketch, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May–July 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing a view of several split bamboo poles in Ecuador. Situated at center, three pieces of bamboo are split in half and rest on top of a whole bamboo pole, shown at lower center. The divided sections of the bamboo are clearly delineated and highlighted in white gouache.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
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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: 1917-4-228
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 and white gouache on thin, gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.8 × 17.9 cm (4 1/4 × 7 1/16 in.)