New House in Beirut, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: May 27-31, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketch showing an oblique view of a stately house in Beirut, Lebanon. Generally rectangular in shape with some additions, the building is decorated with clover- or flower-shaped windows along its upper register. It also has long rows of windows on its first and second stories. Midway down the facade at right, a large, arched doorway is visible. A balcony is affixed to the back of the building at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches from Beirut, Lebanon, and Larnaca, Cyprus, showing three different buildings. At left, a tall, pointed minaret in Larnaca is finely sketched. At center, an old, two-story house in Beirut is shown with several pointed-arched windows and openings and decorated with four medallions near its central cornice. At upper right, a large house or apartment building is partially cut off. What remains includes a tall wing at left adjoined to a lower central section at right by an exterior stairway.
place: label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: made in
content: Larnaca, Cyprus
label: place depicted
content: Larnaca, Cyprus
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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: 1917-4-918
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 × 21.1 cm (4 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)