Canyon Panorama, Part One, El Yemen Valley, 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 of a bulging mountainside in the region of present-day southern Israel known to Church as the Valley of El Yemen. The mountain dominates the composition, rising from lower right to upper left along a steep slope, which is broken in three places by ledges and cliffs. Various surface details are lightly rendered. In background at right, another mountain ridge is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of a cliff face and mountain in the region known to Church as the El Yemen Valley in southern Israel. At left, a sheer cliff with a rolling, undulating surface is viewed obliquely and shaded in some detail. Rock strata is visible. A somewhat rounded mountain peak is shown in the middle distance at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Israel
label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-177
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 and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)