Valley of El Yemen, Part Two, 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 showing the second part of a panoramic view of the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yamin (known to Church as El Yemen Valley) in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel. This description refers to the entire panoramic view, with 1917-4-173 as the first part. Craggy mountainsides at left and right frame a view of a deep canyon with steep walls that show eroded bands of rock strata throughout. One large prominence is visible at center, with a rolling mountain forming the horizon in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a detailed view of the floor of the Valley of El Yemen, located in present-day southern Israel. At center, a winding stream bed is flanked, at right, by a steep and barren slope with craggy, rocky cliffs at upper right.
place: label: place depicted
content: Palestine (present-day Israel)
label: made in
content: Palestine (present-day 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: 1917-4-174
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 wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 x 20.8 cm (4 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.)