Canyon and Cliffs, Palestine or Syria
date: label: Date
content: February or March 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch of cliffs and a canyon in the mountains near the present-day border of Israel and Jordan. Visible in middle distance at center, two cliffs--one in front of the other--are made up of multiple horizontal bands of rock strata. Canyon opening visible at center left. Tall, triangular mountain rises at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Two landscape studies showing views of a streaming running through a rugged landscape, at left, and at right (demarcated by a diagonal line), a scene of a winding stone ledge set within a barren and mountainous landscape is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan or Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan or 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: 1917-4-898
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
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)