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Drawing, Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)

This is a Drawing. It is dated February 19, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white 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

8.6 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Feb- 19th /68; lower center: Remember the crumbling ledges / The barren ground greyish and the / tufts of bushes dark and greenish / [dividing line] / Remember the dove tinted mountains with / silvery lights where the chasms and ravines / disclosed the rocks and the softly / rounded flanks; verso center: Brown yel / camel / Purple bronze pebbles mem [?]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel); USA; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 8.6 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-945

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