Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
date: label: Date
content: February or March 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of an expansive, sandy plain spotted with small bushes and bounded by a sharp, rugged mountain range in the background, viewed obliquely. In the lower right and oriented vertically, the upper part of a camel carrying two boxes, shown from left back, is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study of a dramatic and precipitous canyon carved into a tall mountain range in present-day Jordan. In the foreground, relatively flat ground extends to the middle distance, where it meets the base of the mountains. Diagonal bands of rock strata are visible in the precipitously eroded canyon, which undulates with irregular cliffs and prominences. At center, a triangular mountain rises above the others. Contour of the mountain range continues along upper margin at left and right.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan or Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan or 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: 1917-4-942
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)