Drawing, Covered Canoe, probably South American, 1853 or 1857, Frederic Edwin Church, 1853 or 1857

Horizontal sheet containing a covered canoe with a seated woman cooking in the bow as two men row beside her, a third man standing on the hip-roof and poling the water, and a fourth man, wearing a hat and poncho, standing in the helm. Scratchings at lower right. Date: 1853 or 1857. Dimensions: Sheet: 17.6 x 27.6 cm (6 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.). Medium: graphite on gray paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Covered Canoe, probably South American, 1853 or 1857 (CH 18193869)