Beirut Harbor and Mount Sannine, Syria (Lebanon)
date: label: Date
content: January 1868 and February 20,1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing Lebanon's rugged coast north of Beirut along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In the foreground, water and a shoreline at right stretch to the middle distance, where buildings extend into the water. At left, a figure rows a boat from a larger ship to shore. Tall, barren mountains are visible in the background, with the contour of Mt. Sannine in the distance.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a view of a valley then known as El Yemen in Jordan near the Dead Sea. A large boulder is perched on top of a cliff in the foreground at right, while a caravan of camels and travelers is viewed from the rear, at left. In the middle distance, two steep mountainsides converge into a narrow valley. A distant mountain ridge is shown in background at left.
place: label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: made in
content: Jordan
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-600
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: 12.2 × 20.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)