Landscape Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
date: label: Date
content: February or March 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 three views of rocky cliffs and mountainsides in present-day Israel or Jordan. In upper portion, a rounded prominence is shown. In middle, a steep, bulging cliffside is visible. In lower portion, two large boulders overhang a sloping hillside, with mountains rising in the distance.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing two views of a mountainside. Above, the mountain's triangular ridge is shown, surmounted by boulders. At center, a detail of a rocky cliff face is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan or Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan or Israel
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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: 1917-4-940
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)