Boulders in 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 large boulder within a deep canyon in present-day southern Israel. In foreground, a large, cubic boulder is visible at right, supported by other smaller rocks. Opposite face of the canyon is visible in middle distance, across from the interceding valley floor. Rugged mountains rise along upper margin and continue out of view.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing two views of a valley in southern Israel known to Church as the Valley of El Yemen. In upper portion, large boulders are visible in foreground, resting along a slope at left. In middle distance, rocky spires at left descend to a sheer cliff, shown center right, which continues toward the canyon floor. In lower portion, a view of three figures taking shelter under an overhang is included.
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: 1917-4-456
objectType: 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: 12.2 × 20.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)