Landscape Sketch with Figures, 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 of a mountain range in present day Israel or Jordan, with three figure studies. A layered mountain range with many sharp and successive peaks is visible at center, stretching obliquely into the distance at right. Detail of a rock carving shown at lower right. Along left margin and oppositely oriented are three figures wearing draped clothing and shown from behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a close look at a rugged, rocky mountainside in present day Israel or Jordan. An overhanging rock is visible at upper center, amid other boulders and rocks.
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: 1917-4-941
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
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)