Drawing, Siloam and the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Frederic Edwin Church

February 7 and 10, 1868

graphite and white gouache on tan laid paper; verso: graphite and white gouache

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of an area of Jerusalem known as Siloam. Viewed from a slightly elevated perspective, a road runs through a gully at lower left while, at right, several rectangular buildings are situated on a steep hillside. In the background, rolling terrain spotted with trees rises to a high horizon where a group of white buildings are shown at center right. Verso: Architectural study of the minaret of the White Mosque of Ramla in present-day Israel. In the foreground, two leafless trees flank a ruined wall. At center, the rectangular tower rises high and dominates the composition. The upper two le