Horizontal view shows men, women and children upon or beside donkeys, most of whom carry barrels, while in the river a boat with four men is visible being rowed in left middle distance and an empty boat lies in the river in the right foreground. A wooded bank, visible in the distance, contains a fenced cocoanut grove, a house, and two figures at right. Scattered clouds in the sky. A woman's head with a water barrel is visible at upper left. Date: 2 May 1853. Dimensions: Sheet: 30.8 x 44.6 cm (12 1/8 x 17 9/16 in.). Medium: gouache, graphite, paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Water Carriers on the Magdalena (Bay), Barranquilla, Republic of Nueva Grenada, now Colombia, May 2, 1853 (CH 18539579)
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