Valley of the Yemen, 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 a view of the valley of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yamin, known to Church as the "Valley of El Yemen," in the Negev Desert of present-day Israel. Witnessed en route to Petra from Jerusalem, the canyon is made up of sheer rock walls that are comprised of layered bands of rock strata. The nearby rocky cliffs at left and right rapidly descends to the valley flooer at center, where a road highlighted in white gouache hosts several members of a caravan--articulated as dark dots on the lightly toned path. In the middle distance, a prominent cliff face bifurcates the canyon, with a deep portion jutting off into the background at right. The scene is backdropped by a range of low but rugged desert mountains.
place: label: made in
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: 1917-4-376
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, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.)