Top of Mountain of Abel's Tomb, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of the mountainous Syrian landscape around the Wadi Barada from the top of the mountain upon which Abel's Tomb stands, a shrine known today as Nabi Habil. In the foreground, a large stone ruin sits upon sloping grass at left while an olive tree stands at right. This grassy hillside descends to meeet a rugged, rocky prominence in middle distance at center, strewn with cliffs, bluffs, and ledges. An expansive, rolling, mountainous landscape extends to the horizon in the background at left.
place: label: made in
content: near Souk Wadi Barada, Syria
label: place depicted
content: near 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: 1917-4-620
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 on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 43.7 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.)