Desert Canyon, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February–March 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 a deep canyon in the deserts of present-day Israel. In the foreground, two rocky ridges converge towards lower center, framing a view of a sheer canyon wall across a deep rift in the middle distance. The canyon's rugged rim and background mountains comprise the upper portion of the composition.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a dramatic, rocky ledge in deserts of present-day Israel. Situated at center, the ledge gently ascends upward to the right, with its sheer, curving edges revealing that layered bands of rock strata that lie beneath. A group of bushes are loosely rendered at right.
place: label: made in
content: present-day Israel
label: place depicted
content: present-day Israel
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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: 1917-4-933-b
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 on white wove paper; verso graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)