On the Road to Ain al-Fijah, Syria
date: label: Date
content: May 4, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing the dramatic, precipitous mountains near the Syrian village of Ain al-Fijah. A rough, rocky ridge at left descends across the composition, meeting the opposite valley face at right. Scene characterized by rugged nature of terrain.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch showing a rock wall in the sharp mountains near the Syrian village of Ain al-Fijah. Rocks in foreground climb up slope to meet a vertical, rocky cliff face in the middle distance.
place: label: made in
content: Ain al-Fijah, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Ain al-Fijah, Syria
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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: 1917-4-907
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: 12.3 × 20.9 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)