Sketches of the House of Semon the Tanner, Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Fishermen on the Rocks at Beirut, Syria (Lebanon)
date: label: Date
content: January 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and figure sketches showing views of the House of Semon and a bay window in Jaffa, Palestine (present-day Tel Aviv, Israel) and fishermen in Beirut, Lebanon. Depicted at upper center, the front doorway of the House of Semon is an arched portal made of large stone blocks. A figure sits beside it against the wall of an adjacent building at right. At lower left, a bay window in Jaffa made of stones is included. Finally, at lower right, a fisherman on the coast near Beirut, Lebanon, is shown from the rear fishing with bare legs. At lower center, the same figure is outlined from the front.
place: label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Jaffa, present-day Tel Aviv, Israel
label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: made in
content: Jaffa, present-day Tel Aviv, Israel
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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: 1917-4-167
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.9 × 17.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)