Olive Tree, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1868

Olive Tree, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 1868

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Landscape and botanical sketch of an olive tree and nearby buildings on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In the immediate foreground at left, the gnarled, knobby trunk and twisting boughs of an olive tree are shown in some detail. Down the slope of the Mount, in the middle distance at right, multiple buildings are shown in varying levels of detail. Graphite on gray-green wove paperboard

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