Drawing, View of the Riverbank Village of Gaurumo with a Church, Houses, Many Palms and a Boat Visible Before a Distant Hill, With a Additional Sketches of Tree Top and Palm Below, 1853, probably May, Frederic Edwin Church, 1853, probably May

Horizontal view on upper part of the sheet of a steep river bank with a church, houses, many palms and a single boat filling the foreground with hill range in the background, and on the lower part of the sheet a tree top is visible at bottom center and a palm rises over bushes and a tree at bottom right. In the background, a boat is in the foreground. Figures and mark inscribed, explained bottom left: "2 beautiful sloping band overgrown / with grassy herbage / x church white and also one or two / houses. Many cocoanuts presenting / a soft drooping effect of foliage / 3 distant hill. " bottom right, top of a tree and a palm rising over bushes and a tree. Place name top right: "guarumo-village. ". Date: 1853, probably May. Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 29.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.). Medium: graphite on light gray paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, View of the Riverbank Village of Gaurumo with a Church, Houses, Many Palms and a Boat Visible Before a Distant Hill, With a Additional Sketches of Tree Top and Palm Below, 1853, probably May (CH 18198115)