Old Olive Tree and Entablature, as-Samu, Palestine

A graphite pencil sketch on pale paper shows a gnarled olive tree at right, its trunk twisting upward into loose foliage. At left, a partly drawn arched architectural entablature with a carved cornice and a column fragment sits beside a handwritten inscription and a small label reading "Old olive."

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

February 17, 1868

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2059 px

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