Village of Al Kiswah, Syria
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 a view of a small village called Al Kiswah in Syria, south of Damascus, with Mt. Hermon in the background. The foreground consists of gently rolling terrain covered in wheat that descends to a road at right. In the middle distance, past a stream and a wooded area, the mosque and various buildings of the village are shown. At right, the mosque's minaret towers over the other structures. In the background, the partially snow-capped peak of Mt. Hermon dominates the horizon at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a road following the curving of a stream beside a wooded. A figure with at least two animals is shown walking along the road at lower center, while a rolling mountain range comprises the horizon in the background.
place: label: made in
content: Al Kiswah, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Al Kiswah, 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: 1917-4-1299
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 and white gouache on gray-green paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 × 44.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)