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The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889)
after 1844
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 28 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (72.4 x 49.5 cm)
- Culture
- Arabs
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- 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
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg painted several pictures of Mount Sinai and was fascinated by its religious significance as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. This painting shows the artist himself, seated on the summit next to the Chapel of Elijah. Through his studies of the area, Kellogg found evidence of a valley called Es-Seba’îyeh, where Moses and the Israelites may have camped. Back in America, he gave many lectures about his travels, using this painting along with others to illustrate his findings. (Davis, The Landscape of Belief, 1996)
