File:Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 2, May 2, 1868 (CH 18192799).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 2, 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 2, May 2, 1868
Description
English: Horizontal rectangle continuing the view scene in -a and showing the city in the distance across the plain. Two designs of ears of grain and design of plant details are visible.
Date 2 May 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-05-02T00:00:00Z/11
Medium graphite on off-white paper
Dimensions Sheet: 28.9 x 44.1 cm (11 3/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-123-b
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at lower right: 2d sheet/View of Damascus/April [struck out] May 2d/68; at lower left center: [o]lives scattered here; throughout: Forest of trees with occasional brown streaks/reddish/white/blue water/olive green/mostly many olives/mixed/ with rich green/trees/olive warm grey/Brown Road/water/scattered tree/scattered/olives in brown/ earth/grove of/olives/water grey/Sienna/many olives faint tint of pink in grey green/rich/orange/wienna/in shadow/greyish/Rocks in foreground grey/where fresh broken rich bt Sienna/Black lichens grey moss/wild wheat/green spots in red/red stem
  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: Syria
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