Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view from the sea of Mt. Carmel and the city of Haifa, in what is now Israel. Water extends from foreground to middle distance, where it meets the shore. At left, Mt. Carmel rises dramatically and is crowned with the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. At center, the flat coastline extends to the right.
- Verso: Landscape study showing a distant view of the city of Jaffa, in what is now Israel. Water extends from foreground to middle distance, where it meets a shoreline at the base of the city, which is built on a round hill. The arched, semi-spherical form of the prominence dominates the center of the composition at center and is covered in structures.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- February 7, 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on white laid paper; verso; graphite
- Dimensions
- 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
