File:Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 1, May 2, 1868 (CH 18192793).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 1, May 2, 1868   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
Title
English: Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 1, May 2, 1868
Description
English: Horizontal view containing a mountain slope at left, the tomb of a Muslim saint stands in the middle distance. Foot hills and the plain are at right. An irrigation pond is in the foreground. The city of Damascus is seen in the distance in 1917-4-123-b, across the plain. Rocks are outlined in the foreground and like a ring over the sketched plain, at right.
Date 2 May 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-05-02T00:00:00Z/11
Medium graphite on off-white paper
Dimensions Sheet: 28.9 x 43.8 cm (11 3/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-123-a
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at lower left: View of Damascus / May 2d /68; again above: wely too large 2. Brown; again throughout: reddish / whitish/purplish & greenish/grey wely/meadow streaked/warm streaks/green .../greyer/rich/ golden/grey/rich sienna/grey cropping out/bank/water/nearer; and at lower right: a few o .... [This inscription carries on into 1917-4-123-b: (o) lives / scattered here. LHC 11-7-2006]
  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: Syria
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