Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Architecture sketch showing an oblique view of a stately house in Beirut, Lebanon. Generally rectangular in shape with some additions, the building is decorated with clover- or flower-shaped windows along its upper register. It also has long rows of windows on its first and second stories. Midway down the facade at right, a large, arched doorway is visible. A balcony is affixed to the back of the building at right.
- Verso: Architecture sketches from Beirut, Lebanon, and Larnaca, Cyprus, showing three different buildings. At left, a tall, pointed minaret in Larnaca is finely sketched. At center, an old, two-story house in Beirut is shown with several pointed-arched windows and openings and decorated with four medallions near its central cornice. At upper right, a large house or apartment building is partially cut off. What remains includes a tall wing at left adjoined to a lower central section at right by an exterior stairway.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- May 27-31, 1868
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-918
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 12.4 × 21.1 cm (4 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Beirut, Lebanon
- place depicted
- Beirut, Lebanon
- made in
- Larnaca, Cyprus
- place depicted
- Larnaca, Cyprus
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-918
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44166a6eb-da4a-4da7-879a-23be405f5e99
