Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria
date: label: Date
content: May 6, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch shownig an elevated view of the Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Syria. Foreground is made up of rocky, rolling terrain that descends to the ruins and their environs in the middle distance. At center, a colonnade of six columns supports an elaborate entablature and remains as one of the most distinctive features of the temple complex, whose ruins surround the colonnade. In the background, across a barren expanse, the dry, rugged slopes of the Lebanese mountains comprise the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Small sketch at center right showing two piles of ruins and fallen stones, set amongst vegetation.
place: label: made in
content: Baalbek, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Baalbek, 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: 1917-4-517
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-green paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 43.7 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.)