View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One
date: label: Date
content: April–May 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, from the bluffs above the Wadi Barada, a narrow river and corresponding valley northwest of the city. This description addresses the entire view, with the second half continuing on 1917-4-158-b. In the foreground, a sharp rocky outcropping is visible at lower right while, at left, the barren slopes of Mount Qasioun descend toward flat terrain that extends to the horizon. Damascus itself is situated on this plain in the middle distance at center--numerous individual spires/minarets are visible in the city that is otherwise articulated as a mass of white buildings, rendered in white gouache. Buildings extend far off to the right. Closer, a grove of trees and multiple buildings are included at lower center right. In the background, a distant, flat horizon extend across the composition, save for a distant mountain at far 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: 1917-4-158-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, brush and white gouache on blue-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)