Old Olive Tree and Entablature, 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: Architectural and botanical studies in as-Samu, Palestine, showing a view of the cornerpiece of an entablature, supported by a partially-rendered column, with a scalloped shell set into an arch, at left. At right, a sketch of an old olive tree with a thick trunk and several boughs is included.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architectural and landscape study of a fragment of an entablature, carved with a line of leaves above an circular medallion, at left, and at right, a view of goats dotting a sloping hillside, with taller mountains in the background.
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: 1917-4-462
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 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)