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Drawing, Studies of Trees and Plants from the Río Magdalena, Colombia
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on gray wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
21.4 × 27.7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: K F [partial letters] Stamp in black ink, lower left (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right center: Tree with / greenish yellow flowers / massed all over; again, at lower center: Guaimaro [not written by Church] - Whitish green color like / poplar somewhat. Bark very white grey; and at lower right: Branches some- / thing like the oak. / Leaves [design] hard and / shiny deep green.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Studies of Trees and Plants from the Río Magdalena, Colombia; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Colombia; graphite on gray wove paper; 21.4 × 27.7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-135
