Drawing, Temple with Semua [present day as-Samu] in the Distance, February 17, Frederic Edwin Church, 17 February 1868

The ruins are shown at right, the village in the left middle distance. The wall of the temple is rather well preserved at a corner, with pilasters formed by blocks projecting from it. A european woman is shown seated upon steps and reading. A native with a gun crouches in the central foreground. Date: 17 February 1868. Dimensions: 30.8 × 44.1 cm (12 1/8 × 17 3/8 in.); ; Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.). Medium: gouache on gray paper, graphite. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Temple with Semua (present day as-Samu) in the Distance, February 17, 1868 (CH 18198513)