View along the Río Magdalena, Colombia

A pencil sketch on pale gray paper shows a wide, flat river landscape with a tree cluster at left and distant low hills across the horizon. Small studies of a standing figure and a tangled shrub sit below, beside handwritten notes in the right corner.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

May 1853

Medium

Graphite on gray laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 3184 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum