Ruins of St. George Church, Lydda (Lod)
date: label: Date
content: February 7, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural sketch showing a view of the ruins of the Church of St. George in present-day Lod, Israel. At center, a pointed arch is supported by embedded Corinthian columns and connected to other ruinous walls and pillars. Perspective is from a lateral nave into the apse. An Islamic building is shown in the left rear, trees in the right rear. The entablature and the capital of the embedded column of the main nave are detailed at left. Sections of a pilaster of an arch of mouldings and details of capitals are shown at the bottom
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the Plains of Sharon in the foreground, with some grass and bushes, and several buildings in the village of Gezer, located on a rise in the middle distance at center. At upper right, a mounted figure and a figure holding a basket on her head are both shown from behind.
place: label: place depicted
content: Lod, Israel
label: made in
content: Lod, 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: 1917-4-112
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25 × 17.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)