Pharaoh's Palace, Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 27, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture sketch showing a view of the ancient temple in Petra called Qasr al-Bint, known to the artist as the Pharaoh's Palace. Viewed obliquely from the east, the temple's ruinous facade still has numerous details intact, including an entablature with medallion or rosette decorations. The temple is roughly rectilinear in shape and has a mostly flat eastern facade. The foremost pier at center right is decorated with octagons carved inside of squares. Details of rosettes are visible at upper left. Other ruinous architectural elements in the background at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of Bedouin camp with a tent in front of a distant mountain in the deserts of present-day Israel. In the foreground at center, a pitched tent is incompletely rendered, two figures beside the opening at right. To the right of the tent, a fire and a seated camel are visible. In the background, a large, rugged, triangular mountain has craggy spires jutting out from its left slope, indicating the layers of rock strata that comprise the mountain. A dark camel stands on its right slope.
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: 1917-4-1451
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 on light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.1 cm (4 13/16 × 8 5/16 in.)