Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and architectural sketches showing a distant view of the mountains of Lebanon across a plain with ruins in the foreground at left, in the upper portion of the composition, and four sketches of stone buildings in the lower portion. Two structures are shown drying fuel on their roofs.
- Verso: Architectural sketches showing details of ancient ruins near the towns of Burak and Al-Masmiyah in Syria. At left, the lintel of a stone doorway in Burak is visible. At right at oppositely oriented, the contour of a column base and a stone block with four lines of carved inscriptions in Greek are shown.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- April 27 and 28, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on grey-green laid paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 12.2 × 21.3 cm (4 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
