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Drawing, Botanical Studies with Flying Parrots, Boquia, Colombia
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 1853 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan 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
31.8 × 40.8 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c; in black ink, verso center, L.457d Watermarked: lower right, [F. JOH]ANNOT
It is inscribed
Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: Parrots; in graphite, center right: Dark green main / rib of leaf light green / - bush -; in graphite, center left: 3 / 3 / coroso / 2 - dead leaves of a / Brownish straw color / 3 - large bunches of brilliant / scarlet berries / This tree / grows in many / beautiful forms / often resembling / the Elm, with a / multiplicity of / branches which / are more ir-regular / than the Elm - / Branches at top / vandyke brown; in graphite, lower center: 2 dead / About 15 ft / high leaves very / large; in graphite, lower left: 2 whitish grey green very / distinct from the mass of / green in clustered / masses; in graphite, lower right: The same / Underside / of leaf very strongly / ribbed in - relief / Boquia N. Granada / July -/53
Cite this object as
Drawing, Botanical Studies with Flying Parrots, Boquia, Colombia; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Colombia; graphite on tan wove paper; 31.8 × 40.8 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-878
