Overlooking El Arabah
date: label: Date
content: February 21, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view overlooking the plains of the Wadi Arabah in present-day Jordan, witnessed by Church during his expedition to Petra. Two rocky, sandy prominences are visible in the foreground--one, at right, with a figure on its summit. Flat terrain with desert scrub brush extends from the middle distance into the background, where it meets the rugged Mountains of Edom. Defining the horizon, the mountains fade into a haze at left. Above, three light clouds hang in the blue-green sky.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Tel-Aviv, Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan
label: possibly made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
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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: 1917-4-683-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil paint and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 25.3 × 32.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 15/16 in.)