Drawing, Mixed Sketches, Syria

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April 27, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green laid paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

12.4 × 21.3 cm (4 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: red; in graphite, center: brown / sil grey / yel / red / grey; in graphite, center right: rock / grass / grey / grey; in graphite, lower right: Rem - All grey / rocky mountains & / the ochrous brown / fractures & / ledges / mill; in graphite, verso upper center: Lebanon / pale / grey purp; in graphite, verso center: gold gold greenish / purplish / yel green / rich green; in graphite, verso center right: slope; in graphite, verso lower left: grey loose stones & rocks / Stones richly tipped with orange lichens; in graphite, verso lower right: Burak / Apl. 27th /68

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