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Drawing, Hilltops with Boulders, Palestine or Syria

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated February 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper. 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

17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: gold / greyer; in graphite, lower left: Mem; in graphite, lower margin: Recollect effect of golden sand / pouring like cataract poryphory / (dark purple) rocks; in graphite, verso center left: B grey B; in graphite, verso center: grey / B; in graphite, verso lower right: [struckout: Tounge] / Tongue of / camel white

Cite this object as

Drawing, Hilltops with Boulders, Palestine or Syria; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-937

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