Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape studies showing four details of rocks and boulders atop desert hills and embankments in the wilderness near the presentday border of Israel and Jorden (then known as Palestine and Syria, respectively). In upper half of composition, two views of rugged bluffs with boulders are shown. Below, two sketches of rocks and cliffsides are visbile.
- Verso: Landscape study of a ravine with several shaded washes, crowned by a series of boulders, visible along upper margin. A sketch of a camel's open mouth and tongue is visible at lower right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- February 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
