Sketches on the Road from Al-Masmiyah to Deir Ali, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April 28, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from present-day Syria showing a ruined structure, tents, and two figures. Ruins with two trees stretch across the upper portion of composition, while three sketches of tents are visible in lower left corner, and two sketches of a figure--viewed front and back--are included at lower right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch showing a distant ridge along the upper margin, and a nearby hill in the foreground at lower left.
place: label: made in
content: Syria
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-915
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 × 7.3 cm (4 13/16 × 2 7/8 in.)