Buildings and a Sailboat, Beirut, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: January 14, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketches from Beirut, Lebanon, showing two buildings and a sailboat in or near the city's harbor. At lower left, a boat with furled sails is shown anchored in right profile. Above it at upper left, a portion of a domed and arched structure is visible. Dominating the composition at right is a detailed sketch of a building situated upon the water, possibly the Hotel Belle Vue, where the artist and his family stayed during the visit. The lower floor has three exterior pointed arches and an addition, at left, while six windows are visible in the upper story.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches from Beirut, Lebanon, showing multiple figure sketches and, at upper left, a recessed, arched doorway atop a flight of stairs. At upper right, a woman wearing a burqa is shown in left profile with a mesh veil over her face. Below her, a upper portion of an individual's head is sketched in right profile. At center, a mother holding a child on her back is loosely rendered, while below them, a foot wearing a pointed shoe is included.
place: label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
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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: 1917-4-896
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.7 × 12.1 cm (3 7/16 × 4 3/4 in.)