Hilltops with Boulders, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
date: label: Date
content: February 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape studies showing four details of rocks and boulders atop desert hills and embankments in the wilderness near the present-day border of Israel and Jordan (regions in the Ottoman Empire then known as Palestine and Syria, respectively). In upper half of composition, two views of rugged bluffs with boulders are shown. Below, two sketches of rocks and cliffsides are visbile.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of a ravine with several shaded washes, crowned by a series of boulders, visible along upper margin. A sketch of a camel's open mouth and tongue is visible at lower right.
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: 1917-4-937
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 white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)