Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 11 objects that are related to Drawing, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, March 1868.

Broken column sections scattered on grass in foreground with hills in the distance.

Painting, Broken Column, Parthenon, 1869
brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2018-36-1

There are 3 images and 1 video of this object.

Octagonal room of stone or painted stone with arched openings on four sides and a cupula of Moorish-inspired interlace. The central rear arch leads to a receding colonnade while lateral niches display two large neoclassical urns with painted Moorish decoration. Below the side niches are European versions of Turkish ottomans covered with French mid-century textiles. A large pipe stand of Germanic origin occupies the center of the kiosk and an octagonal table sits to the right. Barely noticeable amidst the room's richly patterned surfaces is a man reclining on a central ottoman smoking a hooka, attended by a male servant to his left.

Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie], ca. 1844
brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper.
Thaw Collection.
2012-5-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Table with Chinese cloisonné enamel top set into an octagonal gilt-metal from which eight bells hang; the bronze base in Chinese style, highlighted with gilding with elephant head feet.

Center Table (China), 1855–60
bronze, enamel, gold.
Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes.
1968-58-1-a/k

This object was made by F. Barbedienne Foundry.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Study of grassy landscape with ruins of colonnade in mid-ground, looking to mountainous landscape, that is possibly separated by a body of water and shoreline. A small stand of dark, pyramidal trees is to the right of two single, free-standing columns. The columns are in the Corinthian order and likely once comprised the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Drawing, Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, January 24, 1878
brush and oil paint on thin paperboard, mounted on very thick paperboard.
Gifted by a Private New Hampshire Collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An....
2013-59-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

The city of Jerusalem is shown at right in the distance. A solitary figure stands facing the city at center. Monuments at left.

Drawing, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, March 1868
brush and oil paint, pen and black ink, graphite on paperboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-763

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Vertical drawing of a Bedouin figure standing in front of rocks looking left and holding a piece of cane in his extended left hand.

Drawing, Standing Bedouin, probably February 1868
brush and oil paint, graphite on brown paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-752-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Horizontal image on a hill range stretching form left to the right background interrupted by an indentation in the middle distance. A plain is shown at left, a mountain range in the right background. The sea is in the left rear.

Drawing, Landscape near Petra, February 1868
brush and oil on thin cream board.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-683-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

At center, the facade of El Khasneh is visible facing to the left. The architectural elements are flanked at right and left by reddish-brown rock walls. A small patch of blue sky is at upper left corner.

Drawing, Al-Khazneh, Rock Tomb at Petra, late February 1868
brush and oil on thin paperboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-485-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Oblique view into a street from above. Windows and balconies are decorated with cloths and banners. Crowds of people fill the windows and the street below. Many of the figures are masked.

Drawing, View of Beirut (?), 1869
brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-428

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

This salon exhibits a riot of Chinese/Japanese motifs. The walls are hung with wallpaper panels decorated with leaves, birds and large ceramic figures. A lantern, suspended from a palmette canopy centered in the ceiling, is designed in a large circular fish scale pattern. The black japannned and cane furniture is typical of the Victorian period. The floor covering appears to simulate tatami matting. Two large seated statues in costume flank French doors on the right. A mysterious seated figure in the left foreground holds a mask to his face with one hand; an unidentified object, perhaps also a mask, is in the other hand.

Drawing, The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Hietzing, Vienna, 1855
brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on white paper.
Thaw Collection.
2007-27-56

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A stream in foreground, boarded on edges with scrub grass, leads toward distant mountain in the center rear.

Drawing, Near Jericho, Wady Kilt, March 20, 1876
brush and oil paint on thin paperboard.
Gifted by a Private Santa Barbara Collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An....
2013-38-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images and 1 video of this object.