Mountain View, 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 precipitous flat-topped mountain in a region known to Church as the Valley of El Yemen. Viewed obliquely, the mountain is characterized by its vertical cliffs on either side, which are made up of rounded, undulating vertical forms. Various slopes and washes are visible around the base of the mountain in middle distance. Other rocks and bluffs are shown in the foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose landscape sketch of a boulder or rock formation in a region known to Church as the Valley of El Yemen. The rock formation dominates the composition at center, with outlines of mountain ridges in the background.
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: 1917-4-176
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 × 20.3 cm (4 13/16 in. × 8 in.)