Ruins near Burak, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April 27, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch of ruins near the village of Burak, Syria (also spelled Burraq), with a floating figure sketch. Piles of stones are shown in the foreground, leading to a view of two ruinous stone structures in middle distance. A doorway is visible at left. The head and shoulders of a figure are included at upper left.
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches around Syria showing two landscape views of mountainsides at upper left and lower right, two views of ruins on a ridge at lower left and upper center, and sketches of a figure's head, distant goats, and a farmer ploughing at upper right.
place: label: made in
content: Burak, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Burak, 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: 1917-4-931
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 21.4 cm (4 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)