Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape sketch showing a view of a craggy, red rock mountain witnessed en route to Baalbek, Lebanon. Green treetops and other shrubs are visible in the foreground along the lower margin. The mountain itself dominates the composition in the middle distance at center. Made up of vivid red rock, the mountain has several dark fissures or veins running through it. Its craggy ridge creates a high, serrated horizon below a blue and open sky.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
May 1868
Accession Number
1917-4-728
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and oil on brown paperboard
Dimensions
11.4 × 22.9 cm (4 1/2 × 9 in.)
made in
Lebanon
place depicted
Lebanon
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Data Source
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Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-728