El Yemen Valley, Part One
date: label: Date
content: February 20–March 2, 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 the first portion of a panoramic view of the canyon known to the artist as the "Valley of El Yemen," located at the intersection of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin in the Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in present-day Israel. This description refers to the entire view, comprising three leaves with 1917-4-500-b and -c. In the foreground at left, piles of stones lay at the foot of a sheer, rocky cliff that curves into the middle distance. Its slope descends to a stream at lower center that snakes through the base of the canyon. At right, a rugged hillside stepped with three sheer cliffs frames a view of a barren mountainside in the middle distance at center. Rising abruptly from the base of the canyon, this mountain has two, striated cliffs that run horizontally along the mountainside. It rises to flat top that allows an extensive view of the summits and mountainsides in the background that form a rolling horizon. At upper left, two isolated outlines of mountains and cliffs are included.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine (present-day Israel)
label: place depicted
content: Palestine (present-day 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: 1917-4-500-a
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
label: Dimensions
content: 44.8 × 30.9 cm (17 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)