Botanical Sketches with a House, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: May–October 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketches showing four views of trees and vegetation in Colombia, as well as a view of house. Likely a view along the Magdalena River, the sketch at upper right shows multiple trees and dense shoreline vegetation reflected in water below. At upper right, three vine-covered trees grow out of a mass of billowing vegetation. At lower left, a single tree with slender branches is clearly rendered, while at lower right, an indistinct mass of hanging vegetation is shown. At lower center, a thatched hut is viewed from a distance and surrounded by shadow.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: probably 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: 1917-4-131
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 × 28.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)