Drawing, Distant View of Damascus, Syria, 1868, Frederic Edwin Church

Landscape view across two pages, a showing slightly less than two thirds. Hills form the banks of a valley with trees and water which wind toward right in the central middle distance. A plateau and hills form the background. Inscribed, a: 2 / green / b & g / grey / grey rust / yel written lower left: 2 all these ledges goldbrown / from wely above damascus / view looking west / (parts) 1st inscribed b: grey / grey rust / yel written lower left: from wely above damascus / 2nd part. Date: 1868. Dimensions: 27.5 × 43.9 cm (10 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.). Medium: gouache, graphite, paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Distant View of Damascus, Syria, 1868 (CH 18200323)