Landscape near Baalbek, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: May 6, 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 mountain range near Damascus, Syria at sunrise. In middle distance, foothills rise to taller, more rugged mountains, shaded in some detail. Above, a lone cloud hangs in the sky. Below, sketches of the moon and three flat-roofed structures are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and landscape sketches showing a view of a village on a hill near Baalbek, Syria, with two architectural details. In upper portion, a village on a hill is hastily sketched and visible between a saddle in two hills. Below, two details of carved entablature decorations in Baalbek are shown. One, at left, features a scroll and acanthus leaf motif, while the sketch at right shows a dual-winged motif.
place: label: made in
content: Baalbek, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Baalbek, Lebanon
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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: 1917-4-906
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 × 21.4 cm (4 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)