Coconut Palm, Two Views
date: label: Date
content: 1853 or 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical study showing two views of the upper portion of a coconut palm tree in Colombia or Ecuador. Below, the tree sways in the wind as its fronds are blown from left to right. Above, the tree stands upright with fronds unmoving, as the gable of a domestic structure is visible half-way down trunk.
place: label: made in
content: Ecuador or Colombia
label: place depicted
content: Ecuador or 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: 1917-4-215
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: 18.3 × 10.8 cm (7 3/16 × 4 1/4 in.)