Overlooking Burak, Syria, Part One
date: label: Date
content: April 27, 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 overlooking a the village of Burak (also spelled Burraq) in southern Syria. Ledge and rocks are visible in foreground with structures and perhaps ruins, in the middle distance at right. In the background, the mountains that separate Lebanon from Syria are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing the branches and leaves of a poplar tree at right, a goat herder at upper center, and a view of a wadi with animals is shown at upper left. Two sketches of plants are visible in lower left corner.
place: label: made in
content: Burraq, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Burraq, 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: 1917-4-910
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 21.4 cm (4 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)