Israel | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Handaxe #5 And Blade #9, BC–AD Contemporary Flint Tool Design Series, 2011

Handaxe #5 And Blade #9, BC–AD Contemporary Flint Tool Design Series, 2011
flint, elastomer.
Courtesy of Studio AmiDov.
9.2014.1

There are 5 images of this object.

Vertical view at top of the ruins of the Church of St. George in Lydda (Lod). View from a lateral nave into the apse. An Islamic building is shown in the left rear, trees in the right rear. The entablature and the capital of the embedded column of the main nave are detailed at left. Sections of a pilaster of an arch of mouldings and details of capitals are shown at the bottom. Indication of an East direction. Verso: horizontal view at top of an Arab riding, a woman walking and carrying a load upon her head, both shown from the back; a distant view of the village Gazur, with a road shown obliquely in the foreground in the center; and a view across a plain looking towards a hill range at the bottom.

Drawing, Ruins of St. George Church, Lydda [present day Lod], February 7, 1868
graphite on brown paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-112

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Glass-beaded necklace in form of circular band with projecting balls, all in red, orange and gold tones. Large metal snap closure at back.

Necklace (Israel), ca. 2005
glass beads, metal.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2006-1-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Horizontal rectangle. A part of the hill with two groups of trees and a seated Arab figure is shown in the left and central foreground. In the right foreground and in the middle distance view across the Valley of Jesophat.

Drawing, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, March 1868
brush and oil, graphite on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-341

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Horizontal view of the lower part of a house, standing on a corner of a street. The gateway shows two arches, the door is open and a man sits in the street in the corner beneath a device with a part of an adjoining house shown, at top of sheet; a group of projecting windows supported by an art, at bottom left of sheet; and a fisherman shown from the left back stands upon rocks at the shore, with a walking fisherman shown beneath at the bottom right of sheet.

Drawing, Sketches of the House of Semon the Tanner, Jaffa, Palestine...
graphite on paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-167

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Recto: Horizontal oblique view down into valley, a continuation of 1917-4-184 verso.
Verso: Horizontal view of the tower at Ramleh.

Drawing, Mount of Olives, Bethany, Siloam, and Jerusalem, Palestine [Bethany...
graphite, brush and white gouache on gray paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-454

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal view of the corner of a street with house roofs show in the foreground; a house of complicated design in the right middleground; and houses, a wall and scaffolding at left.

Drawing, Jaffa Street Corner, Palestine [Tel Aviv, Israel], March 9, 1868
graphite on light brown paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-183-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Recto: Horizontal view of the countryside with boulders and gnarled olive trees on slopes, Siloam in the center middleground and the Dome of the Rock on the Mount Zion in the right background.

Verso: an account

Drawing, Siloam and Jerusalem, Southeastern Corner of the Walls Seen from the...
graphite on gray paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-159

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Horizontal view of a wooden water wheel with its axle supported by walls, and a small basin shown at the base of the right wall.

Drawing, Water Wheel with a Basin in a Garden, Jaffa, Palestine [Tel Aviv,...
graphite on gray paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-183-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Recto: Horizontal view of a tower rising behind a wall with a broken arch at left, a distant view of a town with a mountain range in the background.
Verso: Horizontal view of the slope of a hill with a Muslim shrine on top, left seen at the right of the sheet.

Drawing, Tower at Lydda, and Ramleh seen from Ramleh Tower, Palestine...
recto: graphite on gray paper verso: graphite, brush and white gouache on....
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-184

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Necklace (Israel), ca. 1990

Necklace (Israel), ca. 1990
copper, sunflower seeds, cord.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collection Acquisitions Program....
1995-8-8

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.