View of Damascus, Syria, Part One
date: label: Date
content: May 2, 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 the first part of a panoramic view of Damascus, Syria, looking east from the Wadi Barada--a river and canyon northwest of the city. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves with 1917-4-123-b. In the foreground at right, an extremely rugged hillside is partially rendered, with a prominent rocky outcropping at upper right. This hillside descends toward lower center, where a small river snakes through the bottom of a steep canyon. The opposite side of the canyon, at left, has abrupt cliffs that lead to an extremely rugged hilltop at center left, where a small domed structure is visible--this is the Mount Qasioun Observatory. Behind it, Mount Qasioun rises quickly to a rounded summit at upper left. At lower center, the Wadi Barada flows from the canyon and into flat terrain in the middle distance at center, where several farms, groves of trees, and structures are interspersed. At center, the buildings comprising the city of Damascus are visible in this flat plain. Other structures are shown on the horizon at right, while a prominent mountain is visible along the horizon at left.
place: label: place depicted
content: Damascus, Syria
label: made in
content: Syria
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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: 1917-4-123-a
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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: 28.8 × 44 cm (11 5/16 × 17 5/16 in.)