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Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
July 1853
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 16.1 × 23.4 cm (6 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Colombia
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Architectural, figural, and landscape sketches of a bamboo bridge in Buga, Colombia, and a young woman carrying a large clay jar on her head at lower left, horizontally oriented. At center, the arched form of the bridge stretches across the composition, supported by an A-frame structure. At right, a man wear a hat descends the bridge. Below, a stream and its steep bank are visible. Faintly rendered clouds comprise background.
