Ruins and Figure Sketches, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April or May 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural sketch obliquely showing an ancient, ruined stone wall with ornate pediment and acanthus leaf decorations. Two figure sketches of faces are visible at upper right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural sketch showing a view of fuel drying on the roofs of two mud-brick houses in Syria. At left, telegraph wires and poles are obliquely shown descending a mountainside.
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: 1917-4-1454
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: 20.7 × 12.4 cm (8 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.)