Drawing, Temples, Baalbek, May 6, Frederic Edwin Church, 6 May 1868

The temples are shown from southwest in the right middle distance, the wall of the kalah extending toward right edge. The valley is in the left middle distance; lebanon in the background. Recto: small pencil study of sunlit ruins. Notes on color throughout. Date: 6 May 1868. Dimensions: 27.4 × 43.7 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/16 in.). Medium: gouache on gray wove paper, graphite. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Temples, Baalbek, May 6, 1868 (CH 18199067)