Overlooking El Arabah, Part One
date: label: Date
content: February 20, 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 overlooking the Wadi Arabah in Jordan from an elevated point. Hills, buffs, washes and ravines in the foreground give way to flat plain in middle distance. In the background, the Mountains of Edom (a region also known as Mount Seir) rise along the horizon and are capped in snow.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing views of a rock face in the valley in souther Israel known to Church as El Yemen. Shaded in some detail, the rock is defined by rounded columnar forms that lend the cliff an undulating quality. A rounded pinnacle is visible at upper right. At upper center, a large bird flies above the wall. A detail of oen of the columnar forms is visible lower right, oppositely oriented.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: made in
content: Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-467
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 and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.9 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)