Botanical sketches with a Monkey, Colombia or Ecuador

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1853

Botanical sketches with a Monkey, Colombia or Ecuador, 1853

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Botanical sketches showing views of a trees and vegetation in Colombia or Ecuador, with a depiction of a monkey climbing down a tree branch at lower left. At upper left, a tree is shown covered in parasitic vines; at upper center, the top of a grove of bamboo trees is visible; at upper right, a view of a heavily wooded river bank is included; two dark sketches of trees heavily wreathed in vines and other vegetation are situated at center and center left; at center right, a treetop with clusters of white flowers is shown; at lower right, two details of palm fronds are shown while at lower right, a tree with extremely dense leaves is visible; and finally, at lower left, a silhouette of a monkey climbing down a tree is included. Graphite on gray laid paper

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