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Drawing, A House on Stilts, Guayaquil, Ecuador

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated May 1857 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

10.9 × 18.2 cm (4 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, lower center: Guayaquil / May 57 -; in graphite, verso center left: A tree which [struckout: is] appears almost / precisely the same as our willow

Cite this object as

Drawing, A House on Stilts, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Ecuador; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 10.9 × 18.2 cm (4 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-196

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