Jabal al-Habis, Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 24-27, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of the hill known as Jabal al-Habis in Petra, Jordan. Located beside Qasr al-Bint (known to the artist as the "Pharaoh's Palace"), the rugged hill has numerous portals, likely tombs, carved into its rugged, terraced side. The hill's contour is defined by rocky pinnacles, notably with a small, looped arch in the stone at upper center. Behind Jabal al-Habis at left is the sheer northern flank of Umm al-Biyara, the tallest mountain in Petra. At right, the steep, rocky side of another nearby mountain frames the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architecture sketches showing two views of rock-carved tombs in the rugged landscape of Petra, Jordan. At lower left, two of the Royal Tombs are loosely sketched beneath an immense, craggy mountain. At upper right, a rugged rock in the foreground frames a view of rectangular, carved tombs in the middle distance at center, backdropped by a barren, desert mountain range.
place: label: made in
content: Petra, Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Petra, 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: 1917-4-487
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, brush and white gouache on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 17.7 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)