The Mountains of Lebanon and Architecture Sketches, Burak, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April 27 and 28, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architectural sketches showing a distant view of the mountains of Lebanon across a plain with ruins in the foreground at left, in the upper portion of the composition, and four sketches of stone buildings in the lower portion. Two structures are shown drying fuel on their roofs.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural sketches showing details of ancient ruins near the towns of Burak and Al-Masmiyah in Syria. At left, the lintel of a stone doorway in Burak is visible. At right at oppositely oriented, the contour of a column base and a stone block with four lines of carved inscriptions in Greek are shown.
place: label: made in
content: Burak and Al-Masmiyah, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Burak and Al-Masmiyah, 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: 1917-4-450
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.3 cm (4 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)