View Across the Hills and Plains of Arabah, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: 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 sketch showing a view of hills, flat terrain, and mountains near the Plains of Arabah in present-day Israel. In the foreground, rocks and tufts of grass on visible on a nearby hilltop, while goats or other animals are visible on a hillside beyond it at center. A large, relatively flat plain extends across the middle distance to the Mountains of Edom stretching across the horizon in the background. One snow-capped peak is visible at upper left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the first part of a panoramic view of the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yamin (known to Church as El Yemen Valley) in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel. This description refers to the entire panoramic view, with 1917-4-174 as the second part. Craggy mountainsides at left and right frame a view of a deep canyon with steep walls that show eroded bands of rock strata throughout. One large prominence is visible at center, with a rolling mountain forming the horizon in the background.
place: label: place depicted
content: Palestine (present-day Israel)
label: made in
content: Palestine (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: 1917-4-173
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, brush and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 x 20.7 cm (4 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)