Ruins on Abel's Mountain, Syria
date: label: Date
content: May 4, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of a ruined temple or tomb on Abel's mountain above the Wadi Barada near Damascus, Syria. Today, the shrine marking Abel's tomb is known as the Nabi Habil. Scene almost entirely contained to foreground, where a ruined wall of finely hewn stones is shown, surrounded by fallen stones of the same type. At lower right, a stone is inscribed with a cross. In the background, rolling mountains are faintly rendered along the horizon.
place: label: made in
content: Souk Wadi Barada, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Souk Wadi Barada, 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: 1917-4-599
objectType: 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 wove paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 43.6 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.)