House upon a Hill near San Miguel, Ecuador
date: label: Date
content: June 2, 1857
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of a house atop a heavily wooded hill near the town of San Miguel, Ecuador. In the foreground, a road curves up the hillside until it reaches the house in the middle distance at center, which is viewed obliquely. Rocks are visible in the foreground at right. At left a tall tree and other vegetation serve as framing devices.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished sketch showing the outlines of mountain ridges.
place: label: made in
content: San Miguel, Ecuador
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-780
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.5 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)