Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 1, May 2, Frederic Edwin Church, 2 May 1868

Horizontal view containing a mountain slope at left, the tomb of a muslim saint stands in the middle distance. Foot hills and the plain are at right. An irrigation pond is in the foreground. The city of damascus is seen in the distance in 1917-4-123-b, across the plain. Rocks are outlined in the foreground and like a ring over the sketched plain, at right. Date: 2 May 1868. Dimensions: Sheet: 28.9 x 43.8 cm (11 3/8 x 17 1/4 in.). Medium: graphite on off-white paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, View of Damascus, Syria, Part 1, May 2, 1868 (CH 18192793)