The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 25-27, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of the Royal Tombs in Petra, Jordan. Viewed across rocky and rolling terrain the foreground, the tombs are carved into a red rock mountainside in the middle distance at center and center right. Four ornate, classic tombs are shown, known collectively as the Royal Tombs. From left to right, they are the Palace Tomb (at center), the Corinthian Tomb, the Silk Tomb, and the Urn Tomb (at far right). The Palace and Urn Tombs especially are carved in an ornate fashion. Another group of ruins are visible around a prominence in the middle distance at far left. In the background, a rugged mountain range backdrops the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a small, unfinished view of rocky, rugged terrain with a ruin in or near Petra, Jordan.
place: label: made in
content: Petra, Jordan
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-477
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 44.2 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)