Rainbow over the Mediterranean with Figure Sketches, Beirut, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: January 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed studies around Beirut, Lebanon showing views of a seascape and three partial figures. At left and center, a rainbow arches over the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, with a steamship floating in the foreground. At right, three unfinished studies of figures shown from the rear are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies around Beirut, Lebanon showing views of a wooden battleship firing a salute, the tops of buildings, and two studies of a man's head. At upper right, battleship, viewed obliquely, fires its cannons in salute--white, billowing smoke expands from either side of the ship. Along upper margin, two sketches of the head of a man with a long beard and a headdress, viewed frontally and from behind. At lower left, a view of the tops of buildings punctuated by tall minarets is included.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-1190
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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 × 12.1 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)