Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a moonlit view of rolling mountains in the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin (known to Church as El Yemen Valley) in the Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in present-day Israel. The rugged foreground is darkened by shadow with a prominent boulder at extreme right. In the middle distance, undulating mountains are variously illuminated by the light of the moon, including the tallest peak at left. Two stars hang in the sky above.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- February 29, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.7 × 24.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
