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1917

  • We acquired this object.

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Drawing, View above Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated May 4, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-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

27.7 × 43.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, verso center right: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center left: green / b & g; center: grey grey 2 2; center right: precipice; lower left: 2 - All these ledges gold brown / From wady above Damascus / view looking West - / (2 parts) 1st; lower center: yel yel yel; lower right: B / road / [star symbol]

Cite this object as

Drawing, View above Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; 27.7 × 43.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-655-a

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