Study for a Painting and Figure in a Canoe, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: probably December 1883
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from Mexico including a study for a finished landscape painting and a drawing of a figure in a canoe. At center right and oriented to the right, the artist has charted the compositional layout of a painting that depicts an imagined landscape with ancient Greco-Roman ruins, a bridge over a river, and distant mountains. Scene delineated within a rectangular frame. At upper center, the outline of a figure seated in a rear of a long canoe is shown in right profile.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
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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: 1917-4-1382
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 17.3 cm (4 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)