Landscape Study, Syria
date: label: Date
content: February 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing the sharp and rugged outlines of mountains around the Wadi Mujib--a great canyon in present day Jordan, which was then known as Syria. At upper left, one mountain is rendered in greater detail with visible bands of rock strata.
label: Description
content: Verso: Lanscape study of mountains in the Wadi Mujib--a great canyon in present day Jordan, which was then known as Syria. Rendered in some detail, the mountains are madeup of layers of rock strata. One ridge is visible below with another in the upper portion. Rock bands clearly delineated.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Jordan
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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: 1917-4-899
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
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)