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Drawing, View Across the Hills and Plains of Arabah, Palestine (Israel), February 20, 1868

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated February 20, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite. 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

12.2 x 20.7 cm (4 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper center: soft greenish sky mountains blue & gold grey- / snow; center: stony; lower center: Plain streaked with reddish-brown green / in wadys rich green / streaked with shadows-; lower right: 3; verso upper left: Distant; lower left: splendidly broken; lower right: El Yemen / Feb [struck out: 19] 20-

Cite this object as

Drawing, View Across the Hills and Plains of Arabah, Palestine (Israel), February 20, 1868; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); graphite, brush and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite; 12.2 x 20.7 cm (4 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-173

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