Figure Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed figure sketches showing a scene of two women and an infant interacting. Woman on right is seated and viewed in profile as she speaks to the woman at left. An infant sits beside her with its back turned. Other woman at left stands with a pot on her head and holds something in her left arm. In opposite direction, rough sketch of the upper part of a figure wearing a broad-brimmed hat is visible. Possible sketches of bushes in upper and lower corners. Entire composition marked by pencil scratches.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural studies showing views of windows and details of trim. Mathematical calculations visible at bottom right.
place: label: made in
content: Colombia or Ecuador
label: place depicted
content: Colombia or 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: 1917-4-1524
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 13.8 × 16.8 cm (5 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.)