Desert Canyon, Palestine (Israel), graphite sketch

A loose graphite sketch on pale paper shows a rugged landscape with rising hills in the distance and a deep canyon or ravine cutting diagonally through the foreground. Faint horizontal ledges and rocky outcrops suggest strata, while the upper edges are left largely open and unfinished.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

February–March 1868

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper; verso graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2025 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum