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Drawing, View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April–May 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on blue-green wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
27.4 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c; verso lower right: L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 2 - Blue water / 3 - soft laky brown / 4 - color of ground; center left: village yel / laky; center: Tree line / Trees / dark green / 4 4; center right: 3 3 / 2 / yel green ground / Trees not in leaf laky / olives light; lower left: shadows / Brown with grey purple in / general hue compared with green / red brown / red brown / yel brown; lower right: color of ground / Damascus from Wady / (2 parts) / 1st Part- / 2d is on light paper / #
Cite this object as
Drawing, View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Syria; graphite, brush and white gouache on blue-green wove paper; 27.4 × 44 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-158-a
