Canyon View, El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 20, 21 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Loose landscape sketch showing a canyon view in the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin (known to Church as El Yemen Valley) in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel. Steep, diagonal slopes converge in the foreground and middle distance. Terrain is notably rocky and rugged.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a canyon and rugged mountains in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel. This steep canyon extends obliquely from foreground to middle distance. In background, a single range of mountains--the Mountains of Edom--are visible extending horizontally across the horizon. The flat Wadi Arabah intercedes between, while a cloud bank floats in the sky above.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
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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: 1917-4-220
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; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.3 cm (4 13/16 in. × 8 in.)