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Palm Trees and Housetops, Ecuador
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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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePalm Trees and Housetops, Ecuador. May 1857. Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church. CC0.
