Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view overlooking the Wadi Arabah in Jordan from an elevated point. A caravan travels along a trail that curves around two hillsides and descends away from the foreground. Hills in foreground give way to flat plain in middle distance. In the background, the Mountains of Edom (a region also known as Mount Seir) rise along the horizon and are capped in snow.
- Verso: Landscape sketch of a columnar rock formation in the El Yemen Valley, shaded in great detail. Viewed obliquely, this column form is broken midway up, and shows possible sign of being hewn. A steep mountainside rises around the pillar, with various boulders and rocks in the foreground. Other rock pinnacles are visible in the middle distance at right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- February 20, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite and white gouache on grey wove paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 12.3 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
