Sketches of Guacamaya, Bogotá, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from Bogotá, Colombia, showing views of a house, a standing woman, a large berry, and two views of a macaw (or guacamaya in Spanish). At upper left, a woman wearing a dress stands in left profile beside home that is viewed frontally. Flanked by trees, the house has a terra cotta tiled roof and two grated windows. Below it, at center left, a macaw, rendered in graphite, is shown perched on a branch. A large berry made up of numerous small circles is sketched at lower center, while, at right, a macaw stands on a rock in right profile. Its vibrant blue and yellow feathers are rendered in watercolor.
place: label: made in
content: Bogotá, Colombia
label: place depicted
content: Bogotá, 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: 1917-4-877
objectType: label: Type
content: animals
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on buff wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 37.2 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)