Sunset over the Sea, Port Said, Egypt
date: label: Date
content: January 6-10, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of the sunset over the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt. Water extends from foreground to a low horizon and reflects the light of the setting sun. At center, the sun approaches the horizon. Hazy clouds float overhead while a steamboat is visible at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches at sea near Alexandria, Egypt, showing four views of sailboats in the composition's upper register, with two sketches of buoys in the lower register. Both buoys are shaped like barrels--one positioned vertically and partially submerged, at left, and the other horizontally oriented with two flags on top.
place: label: made in
content: Alexandria, Egypt
label: place depicted
content: Alexandria, Egypt
label: made in
content: Port Said, Egypt
label: place depicted
content: Port Said, Egypt
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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: 1917-4-893
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 × 12.1 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)