Valley of El Arabah, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 21, 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 Plains of Arabah in present-day Israel and the Mountains of Edom beyond, as viewed from an elevated perspective on a bluff near the edge of the plains. In the foreground, a wide, eroded canyon features a dry, winding riverbed at center and a path with camels and figures that curves around sloping hillsides at right. In the middle distance, the flat plains stretch horizontally across the composition, while the barren and rocky Mountains of Edom create a jagged horizon with Mount Hôr visible in the distance at far right.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine
label: place depicted
content: Palestine
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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: 1917-4-583
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 and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 43.8 cm (10 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.)