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Drawing, Botanical Sketches, South America
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1853 or 1857 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.
- Plate 71, Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. /...
- printed paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries.
- 23.2018.4
- Bananier, Plate 54, Flore Médicale
- printed paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries.
- 23.2018.3
- Model, Theobroma Cacao
- wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
- 22.2018.13
Its dimensions are
21.5 × 28 cm (8 7/16 in. × 11 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in black ink, verso center: L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Wild Plantain / 3 - dead leaves / 3 3; center left: Memoranda The large / leaved plants and trees of the / Tropics constantly change / by their foliage renewing above, the old dropping down; center right: Palma / da vino; lower center: Tiles / flat; in graphite, lower right: Hat with bright / red cover [struckout: to his hat] / blue cloak
Cite this object as
Drawing, Botanical Sketches, South America; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on gray wove paper; 21.5 × 28 cm (8 7/16 in. × 11 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-869-c
