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River Bank with Mountains and Clouds, Three Plants, and Men with Hats, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
1853
- Medium
- Graphite on gray laid paper
- Classification
- Studies (visual works)
- Dimensions
- 21.5 × 28.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/4 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
Landscape, botanical, and figure sketches recorded along the Magdalena River in Colombia. Below, a view of a river bounded by heavily wooded and mountainous terrain is visible. Above, at right, three distinct botanical studies of branches, vines, and a palm-like plant are included. At left, a man's head is shown from the rear, with a hat above him at left, while above at right, a frontal view of a man with a mustache wearing a striped, wide-brimmed hat is included.
