Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 26, 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 from Petra, Jordan showing an oblique view of the Urn Tomb, the Silk Tomb, and the Corinthian Tomb carved into western side of Khubtha Mountain. In the foreground, an large heap of cut stones is shown beside a cliff at right, and leads up to the arched terrace in front of the Urn Tomb. At upper right, the facade of the Urn Tomb includes four columns supporting a pediment, topped with a large urn. Beside it, in the middle distance at left, the two stepped motifs of the Silk Tomb are visible in the mountainside. In the distance at left, the two-storied, ornate facade of the Corinthian Tomb is obliquely visible. A distant, rolling mountain range is included in the background at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Minimal landscape sketch at left showing the outline of a rugged mountain ridge in Petra, Jordan.
place: label: made in
content: Petra, Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Petra, 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: 1917-4-476
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, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.8 × 44.4 cm (12 1/8 × 17 1/2 in.)