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Carved Inscriptions
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
1868
- Medium
- Graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 9.6 × 14.4 cm (3 3/4 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Sketch showing a transcription of carved inscriptions on ancient ruins in Syria or Palestine (Israel). Organized into two horizontal rows across the composition, the groups of Greek and Latin letters are bunched together within rectangles, likely representing the stone rocks upon which the letters were inscribed.
