Olive Tree Trunks, Italy

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1869

Olive Tree Trunks, Italy, 1869

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Botanical sketches showing five views of the gnarled trunks of olive trees in Italy. Throughout upper half of composition, three twisting trunks are shown while two others are included in the lower half. One tree, with twin trunks at lower right, stands next to a white stone wall. Graphite on brown laid paper

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