Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Sketches from Ecuador showing a detailed view of a large-leaved plant and a local figure. Dominating the composition at right, the visibly ribbed leaves of the plant, which may be a xanthosoma (locally termed "elephant ears"), spread out in multiple directs. Two prominently leaves show themslves at left and right. In the upper left corner, a local Ecuadorian individual is shown wearing a colorful ruana and a hat.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- probably June 1857
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 10.9 × 18.5 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
