Tree Fern and Grasses, 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 view of a tree fern and nearby grasses in Ecuador. Rising along the vertical axis at center, the treefern has a scaly, spiny trunk and swirling, tendril-like branches that unfurl like those of a fern. Below it, long blades of grass or perhaps the tops of bamboo trees are visible.
label: Description
content: Recto: Botanical sketch of two air plants wreathed in vines in Ecuador. At center, two air plants are shown with long, lush vines hanging off of them. Large leaves are visible throughout. At lower right, a detail of a plant with striated leaves is included.
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: 1917-4-834
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 off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18 x 11 cm (7 1/16 x 4 5/16 in.)