El Khasné from the Siq, Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 25-27, 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 sketches showing a view of the cliff-carved structure called El Khasné (Al-Khazneh), also known as The Treasury, from a nearby slot canyon known as the Siq. In the foreground at lower center, the stream at the base of the Siq is shown with rocks and bushes as it flows towards El Khasné. At left and right, the sheer rock walls frame the view of the rock-hewn structure, which has a Corinthian colonnade on its ground level, topped by a broken pediment on its second. A detailed sketch of this broken pediment is included at center right, while a loose sketch of part of the facade of El Khasné is visible at lower right.
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: 1917-4-588
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 on brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.1 × 27.5 cm (15 × 10 13/16 in.)