Colored Rockface, Petra, Syria (Jordan)
date: label: Date
content: February - March 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 view of a vibrantly-colored rockface in the Wadi Musa near Petra. Dominating the composition in the foreground at center and right, the rockface is comprised of layers of rock strata variously colored grey, pink, maroon, brown, and a bluish lavender. Two darkened indentations are visible at its base at center and right. Green foliage and loose rocks are shown in the immediate foreground, while a distant mountainside is visible in the background at left. Above, patches of blue shine through an otherwise overcast sky.
place: label: place depicted
content: Petra, Jordan
label: made in
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: 1917-4-585
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.5 × 51 cm (12 in. × 20 1/16 in.)