Artist:

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900  Search this

Medium:

Graphite on cream-colored paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 17.7 x 24.9 cm (6 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Type:

landscapes

Drawing

Object Name:

Drawing

Place depicted:

Petra, Jordan

Date:

February 26, 1868

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Recto: Horizontal view with a stripe separating at left, seven designs of tombs with architectural forms; two tombs cut in the rock; a rock with tombs and a view into a gulley with tombs; and at right, view of rocks.

Verso: Views at top of two designs for upper parts of houses with caption "copied from E. India photographs, and upper part of a man shouldering a long fishing rod, shown from the back.

Credit Line:

Gift of Louis P. Church

Accession Number:

1917-4-199

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f98ee12b-a9e3-4753-886c-aee6c48ead8b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1917-4-199