View Towards Damascus, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April 24–May 16, 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 Damascus and the plain it occupies from an elevated perspective in the Anti-Lebanon mountains. In foreground, mountain ridges at left and right descent into the center of the composition and toward the middle distance, where the winding Barada Stream and nearby lush fields are visible. At upper right, the distant Damascus is shown made up of white and peach-colored buildings. Mountain peaks emergy from an otherwise hazy horizon at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: Damascus, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Damascus, Syria
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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: 1917-4-729
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil paint on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 11.3 × 22.7 cm (4 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)