Overlooking El Arabah, Part Two
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 showing a view overlooking the Wadi Arabah in Jordan from an elevated point. A caravan travels along a trail that curves around two hillsides and descends away from the foreground. Hills in foreground give way to flat plain in middle distance. In the background, the Mountains of Edom (a region also known as Mount Seir) rise along the horizon and are capped in snow.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of a columnar rock formation in the El Yemen Valley, shaded in great detail. Viewed obliquely, this column form is broken midway up, and shows possible sign of being hewn. A steep mountainside rises around the pillar, with various boulders and rocks in the foreground. Other rock pinnacles are visible in the middle distance at right.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: made in
content: Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan
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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: 1917-4-468
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: 12.3 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)