Distant View of Damascus, Syria
Horizontal rectangle. Rugged hills bordering a watered and wooded valley shown in the foreground, city and gardens shown in the central middle distance. Hill range in the back. Inscribed figures and notations throughout.
Credit: Gift of Louis P. Church
May 2, 1868
Graphite, brush and white gouache on green-gray paper
1917-4-498
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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