Palm Trees and Housetops, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Architectural and botanical sketch of a palm tree and tiled housetops in Ecuador. Gable of a house, crowned with red tiles, comprises the foreground, with another similar structure in the background. A palm tree intercedes between the two buildings. Its fronds, rendered with great detail and care, subtly sway in the wind. Two black birds are perched atop a frond at right. The tree's coconuts are visible at center. Background sky hazily rendered in a shade of golden gray.
place: label: place depicted
content: Ecuador
label: made in
content: Ecuador
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-191
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 35.4 × 28.9 cm (13 15/16 × 11 3/8 in.)