Mt. Hor, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 23, 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 distant view of Mt. Hor, near Petra, in present-day Jordan. Four laden camels--two viewed in left profile, two viewed from behind--stand in the foreground at lower center. The extremely rocky and rugged peak of Mt. Hor is visible in the background at upper center, viewed across a descending ridge in the middle distance. The summit has a wide, flat section that leads to rounded rock peak at right. An extremely small dome on the top of the peak indicates the Tomb of High Priest Aaron. Rolling mountain ranges are faintly rendered in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of the rugged, mountainous terrain around the peak of Mt. Hor, in present-day Jordan. In the middle distance at right, a craggy and rocky peak points into the sky, while at left, a rocky mountainside frames a distant view of receding rugged mountain ranges in the background.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan
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: 1917-4-447
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 in light brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 17.7 × 24.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)