Valley with McAllister's Saw Mill, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: June 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a sawmill on a wooded hillside in a wide mountain valley in Colombia. In foreground, a sawmill with falling water and other thatched buildings are visible at left. At right, animals graze on the hillside near wooded dell. In the middle distance and background, the opposite face of this valley is visible, with many undulating slopes and ridges, rising gently toward to composition's right margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Partial landscape sketch of a rugged and heavily wooded river basin in Colombia, visible at extreme right. In foreground, the river curves through the landscape while hills and cliffs rise abruptly along its right bank.
place: label: place depicted
content: Colombia
label: 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: 1917-4-64
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, brush and white gouache and oxidized white gouache on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 46.4 cm (11 7/8 × 18 1/4 in.)