Mountains near Beirut, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: February 7, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study from the sea showing a view of the layered mountain ranges near the coastline of present-day Beirut, Lebanon. Waters of the Mediterranean extend from foreground to middle distance, where they meet the shoreline. Ridges of successively taller, more rugged mountains extend into the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies around the present-day city of Ramla, Israel, showing views of the top of a stone house with a triangular decorative scheme, at upper left, the pock-marked trunk of an olive tree at center, and, at lower left, a sketch of a reclining bearded figure (possibly one of Church's travel companions, Rev. D. Stuart Dodge or Mr. Fowler) seated on a bench, with one arm raised.
place: label: made in
content: Ramla, Israel
label: place depicted
content: Ramla, 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: 1917-4-932
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 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)