Buildings and Figures at as-Samu, Palestine
date: label: Date
content: February 17, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape, architecture, and figure sketch showing a view of stone buildings and a group of people in as-Samu, Palestine. A complex of interconnected stone structures inhabits the foreground, with an arched passageway at lower left that leads to another arch, partially visible in the middle distance at center. A house top is visible at right, while a group of individuals wearing headdresses gathers atop a kind of mound or domed structure at upper center. In the background, a mountain range is faintly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches showing carved details from the Eshtemoa Synagogue in as-Samu, Palestine. At upper left, a recessed, scalloped, and semi-circular niche is bordered with ornate, carved decorations. At right, a wreathed medallion is shown on a flat vertical surface with carved, crisscrossed details. Along the lower margin, the contour of a baluster or other architectural detail is included.
place: label: made in
content: as-Samu, Palestine
label: place depicted
content: as-Samu, 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: 1917-4-432
objectType: 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 × 17.4 cm (3 3/8 × 6 7/8 in.)