Canyon View, El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 20, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch of a rocky mountain in what Church called the Valley of El Yemen in present-day southern Israel. In foreground at left, a steep slope descends to the canyon floor at center. In the middle distance, the triangular, rugged peak looms over the landscape at upper center. Throughout the composition, sheer cliffs with visible rock strata interrupt sloping mountainsides.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of mountains and cliff faces in a valley in southern Israel known to Church as El Yemen. A tall, steep, rocky ridge with a vertical cliff dominates the composition at right. Throughout the mountainside, slopes give way to cliffs, and vice versa. At left, the opposite face of the canyon is visible, rendered in less detail. Another mountain ridge is shown in the background at left.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-219
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 off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)