Botanical Sketches from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia
date: label: Date
content: April–May 1853
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketches showing seven views of trees and vegetation along the banks of the Magdalena River in Colombia. At the upper left, a dark mass of trees with large canopies and other vegetation is shown long the river; at upper right: two sketches of treetops are visible; at center left, another dark grove of trees is included, while two sketches of trees and treetops are situated at center and center right. Along the lower margin, an extended, horizontal view of a densely wooded bank is included.
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: 1917-4-128
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.6 × 28.1 cm (8 1/2 × 11 1/16 in.)