Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing three views of rocky cliffs and mountainsides in present-day Israel or Jordan. In upper portion, a rounded prominence is shown. In middle, a steep, bulging cliffside is visible. In lower portion, two large boulders overhang a sloping hillside, with mountains rising in the distance.
- Verso: Landscape study showing two views of a mountainside. Above, the mountain's triangular ridge is shown, surmounted by boulders. At center, a detail of a rocky cliff face is visible.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- February or March 1868
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
