A House on Stilts, Guayaquil, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: May 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural sketch showing a view of a thatched house in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Dominating the composition at center, the house is raised on stilts and viewed from the side. Two figures are visible on and below the structure's elevated porch. A third sits inside. The flat, surrounding landscape and background mountains are faintly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Botanical sketch showing a view, at upper left, and a detail, at lower left, of a tree that closely resembles a willow.
place: label: place depicted
content: Guayaquil, 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: 1917-4-196
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.2 cm (4 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)