View above Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One
date: label: Date
content: May 4, 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 the first part of a panoramic view looking west over the Wadi Barada--a river and canyon northwest of Damascus, Syria. This description refers to the entire view, comprising two leaves, including 1917-4-655-b. At lower center, the Wadi Barada, highlighted in white gouache, snakes its way through a steep and narrow canyon with abrupt walls on either side. A large, rugged prominence dominates the left side of this view, while at right, a rocky outcropping and the sheer cliffs beyond are visible in the foreground and middle distance. A barren, extremely rugged landscape stretches across the background with one sharp peak at upper center and several hill ranges at left and right.
place: label: made in
content: near Damascus, Syria
label: place depicted
content: near Damascus, Syria
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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: 1917-4-655-a
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 gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.7 × 43.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)