House beneath a Ceiba Tree, with Champan Canoes, in Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Three sketches of champan canoes and a house undera large ceiba tree in the city now called Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia. At upper and lower right, two partial sketches of a covered canoe called a champan are visible. At upper left, a view of a house beneath the billowing and voluminous canopy of a ceiba tree is rendered with limited detail.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- May 12 or 13, 1853
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-853
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- nature studies
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite on grey-green laid paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 × 28.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
- made in
- Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
- place depicted
- Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-853
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48effee5a-c1b7-422d-9003-1cf383eab60e
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