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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Oil sketch of wild flowers with a red bloom, yellow daffodils, and pink and white petunias on a dark green ground.

Wild Flowers

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketches of tropical trees, palm fronds and grasses on grey paper with handwritten notes about foliage.

Botanical and Landscape Sketches along the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a feathery fern plant with stem and leaf studies, annotated with handwritten color notes on tan paper.

Botanical Sketch, Pride of the Mountain

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of tall grasses and tropical plants with handwritten notes and a small seated figure in a hat.

Botanical Studies with a Seated Figure, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil botanical sketch of a tall flowering stem and blossoms on paper, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Botanical Sketches, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of arching fern fronds on tan paper, with handwritten colour notes in the upper and lower margins.

Botanical Sketch of Ferns, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860