Carved Inscriptions
date: label: Date
content: 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketch showing a transcription of carved inscriptions on ancient ruins in Syria or Palestine (Israel). Organized into two horizontal rows across the composition, the groups of Greek and Latin letters are bunched together within rectangles, likely representing the stone rocks upon which the letters were inscribed.
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: 1917-4-1445
objectType: 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
label: Dimensions
content: 9.6 × 14.4 cm (3 3/4 × 5 11/16 in.)