Distant View of Damascus, Syria
date: label: Date
content: May 2, 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 the city of Damascus in Syria from a nearby canyon or wadi. In the foreground at right, a barren hillside nearby steeply descends to a wooded are with a stream at the base of the canyon. The opposite wall of the canyon is extremely rugged with layers of rock strata visible throughout the mountainside. A domed structure, possibly the Mount Qasioun Observatory, is perched atop this prominence at center left. In the distance at center, the city of Damascus, with its numerous towers and domes, is visible beyond a wooded are in the middle distance. In the background, a faint mountain range forms an undulating horizon.
place: label: made in
content: near Damascus, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Damascus, Syria
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-498
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 light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.8 × 44.1 cm (11 5/16 × 17 3/8 in.)