Sketch of a Broad-Leaved Plant, 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: Verso: Botanical sketch showing a broad-leaved plant in Ecuador, likely a banana or plantain tree. Its stem rises along the composition's central vertical axis as large, wide leaves radiate in every direction. The older, lower leaves hang downwards at lower center while the newer leaves point upward at upper center.
label: Description
content: Recto: Botanical sketches showing seven views of plants in Ecuador. At upper left, an orange tree covered in vines beside two details of leaves; at upper right, three large, billowing trees placed close to one another; at lower left, the large, billowing canopy of a mango tree; at lower center, a section of a bamboo pole; and at lower right, the wispy tops of two bamboo plants.
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: 1917-4-838
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 on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 18.7 × 10.9 cm (7 3/8 × 4 5/16 in.)