Drawing, Sketches from Colombia: Trees and Rivercraft (Champans)

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 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

Sheet: 21.5 x 27.9 cm (8 7/16 x 11 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: Parts of the letters K F

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, at top: There are oftentimes / beautiful bays doted with / Islands or Islets and / very rich with vegi[sic]tation & / vines large leaved plants & etc.; at center left: These trees / resemble much / the yellow pine; at bottom right: Champans - these boats / are hauled along by the shore following the windings of the bank. The bogas or boatmen have no other clothing than an apron around or from their waist and / generaly [sic] straw hats. The helmsman and others in the stern clad in white fancy cloaks / etc.

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