# Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23219)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6319935dab81db06d5ebc2332f752dac.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.