Moonlight in El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 29, 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 moonlit view of rolling mountains in the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin (known to Church as El Yemen Valley) in the Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in present-day Israel. The rugged foreground is darkened by shadow with a prominent boulder at extreme right. In the middle distance, undulating mountains are variously illuminated by the light of the moon, including the tallest peak at left. Two stars hang in the sky above.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-455
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 tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.7 × 24.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)