Drawing, Ten Studies of Tombs and a View of Rocks, Petra, Jordan, February 26, Frederic Edwin Church, 26 February 1868

Recto: horizontal view with a stripe separating at left, seven designs of tombs with architectural forms; two tombs cut in the rock; a rock with tombs and a view into a gulley with tombs; and at right, view of rocks. Verso: views at top of two designs for upper parts of houses with caption "copied from e. India photographs, and upper part of a man shouldering a long fishing rod, shown from the back. Date: 26 February 1868. Dimensions: Sheet: 17.7 x 24.9 cm (6 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.). Medium: graphite on cream-colored paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Ten Studies of Tombs and a View of Rocks, Petra, Jordan, February 26, 1868 (CH 18195729)