Ed-Deir Rock Temple, Petra
date: label: Date
content: late February 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture study showing a view of the facade of the monumental rock-carved structure known as El-Deir in Petra, present-day Jordan. Viewed from a direct, frontal perspective, the two-storied facade dominates the composition at center. Its lower level is composed of a colonnade with niches, and, at center, a dark portal topped with a triangular pediment. Its second level has three main sections: two portions of a broken pediment at left and right, interrupted by a central tholos-shaped feature. The pink, tan, and purple tints of the rock are visible throughout the facade, as well as in the cliff face out of which the building was carved, which flanks the facade at left and right. A greenish blue sky is visible at upper center and upper right.
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: 1917-4-485-b
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32.8 × 50.9 cm (12 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)