Ten Sketches of Tombs and a Mountainside, Petra, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 26, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketches showing ten views of rock-carved tombs at Petra, and a rocky mountainside. Along the left margin, the facades of three rectangular tombs are visible--the lowest of which includes two columns and a pediment. Two other columns are shown at lower center, while three views of dark portals in the cliffsides are visible at center and upper center. At far right, separated by double dividing lines, a steep and craggy mountainside is a loosely sketched continuation of the view in 1917-4-487.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and figure sketches showing, at upper left, two views of the upper stories of two houses (copied from photographs), and a man shouldering a fishing rod, viewed from behind at upper center.
place: label: place depicted
content: Petra, Jordan
label: made in
content: Petra, Jordan
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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: 1917-4-199
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 off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 17.8 × 24.9 cm (7 × 9 13/16 in.)